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No they couldn't.
The US gave $200 billion in tax breaks to telcos in the 1990s for them to upgrade everyone to fibre. The telcos did not build the fibre.
$200 & $300 Billion Broadband Scandal – The IRREGULATORS | An Independent, Expert Telecom Team - https://irregulators.org/200-billion-broadband-scandal/
Yeah, that's not how you upgrade public infrastructure, that's how you give 200 billion to some investors .. Australia took a slightly different approach .. well at least we tried to until the LNP insisted on paying the telcos more money so NBNCo could build a shittier product that then had to be fixed. Even with those shenanigans we still got a public broadband infrastructure for less than half of the 200 billion hegseth wants to make fuel prices even higher ..
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