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Because they lobbied to shutdown running fiber to your community.
there is 100s of miles of fiber spools just sitting for years at a utility maintenance yard here. the provider that was doing the work to expand services just took the rest of the free money and split.
Maybe someday someone can explain why ISPs are not municipal services like water and sewage.
The local ISP has been promising fiber for over a decade. They waited until Starlink took most of their customers before they started putting it in.