Don't we pay a monthly Internet tax and fee's to bring the internet to the rubes?
Which in turn gets turned over to some corporation with a nice fat contract, which then takes the money, comes up with some excuse not to do the contract, then another corporation gets more money, and comes up with even more excuses.
I mean, the feds have the Post Roads Clause. If the 2nd Amendment applies to more than just muskets (which it does), the Post Roads Clause can be used to build an internet infrastructure. (Of course, that would be if we hadn't dug ourselves into a debt hole in the tens of trillions already for stuff the Constitution doesn't explicitly authorize and if we didn't have unions skimming huge amounts off the top any time there's a federal project.) If you can run an electric wire, if you can run a telephone wire, and pretty much all the areas that don't have broadband yet have those two things, then you can run a fiber-optic cable.
But this crony capitalism, subsidizing corporations that don't deliver on the terms of their deal, it's just not working.