Most of us who live in rural areas do so at least in part because we don’t want to rely on the government nor to have them dictate every little detail of our lives. I am glad that we went years without internet where I live, because no doubt the government internet would have been unreliable and slow as is pretty much everything the government touches. Now I can get StarLink which is light years better than anything I would have got from government run internet. There was and is a huge market for internet in rural areas and yeah it took some time, but now the internet available in many rural areas is far better than the internet available in our urban areas. So please please please when you are arguing in favor of government control of anything do not drag rural communities into this.