This is the biggest fear I have about antitrust. The reason Google is likely being targeted is because they have not stuffed enough pockets for most politicians to turn a blind eye.

Sure, some well meaning officials may enact useful policy to carve out a competitive space for smaller players. What everyone else, however, will learn is to stuff congress with more and more lobbyists.

It's clearly all politics.

The federal government decides the winners and losers.

Google fiber was fine. Google just stopped caring once they realized how little ROI is in the field. Turns out being a last mile ISP is a pretty low margin business.

Google Fiber was never about ROI. Fiber stopped expanding after encountering legal resistance in market after market from the preexisting telecom (take note the singular, because there’s usually just one). Every market they successfully pushed through, the existing telecom dropped prices and improved service to stay competitive. These competition-stifling monopolies are costing taxpayers tons of money when the taxpayers were the ones that funded the infrastructure the incumbents are holding out on now.

Starlink can't get here too soon. https://www.starlink.com

Satellite eliminates local regulatory capture from blocking new entrants.

LEO eliminates the latency issues with current satellite.