Sure, competition doesn't work in the Telecom industry. It doesn't work anywhere! What a bunch of horse$hit! Of course France, Korea, and Japan are SOOO much larger in area than the continental nation of The USA.
If a company had an advantage by increasing thier speed, it would do so. An upstart company could start up in an undeserved market and through deals with the local government increase the infrastructure beet the competition and replicate it in other communities.
If only.... Unfortunately, government at ALL levels is corrupt to it's core and is the main reason it can happen as you say.
One of governments main purposes today is to destroy true capitalism -- actively so.
If we have true capitalism what you say would already be happening across the Republic and aggressively push down prices.
However, government is against Liberty.
Government at the local level, starting with sadistic councils, have humans who want to feel important and assert power by always being negative to new businesses in general (that would impact country wide areas)
Existing companies use their political power to influence state and local government entities to throw up regulatory and licensing roadblocks (this is part of the crony capitalism Sarah railed against).
At the Federal level we have the highest corporate taxes in the world and an insulting amount of fees tacked on to services.
We are very, very far removed from anything resembling true free enterprise in this Republic. The evil parasite class at all levels of government are filled with sadistic bureaucrats who view us as enemies.
Ever heard of Franchise?