>internet at around $500/mo
We paid for it already.
But they stole it and didn'y provide what they charged for.
By the end of 2014, America will have been charged about $400 billion by the local phone incumbents, Verizon, AT&T and CenturyLink, for a fiber optic future that never showed up.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394