Internet access isn't particularly expensive in the US.

Healthcare, education, and housing are expensive in the US for the same primary reason: political interventions that simultaneously subsidize demand and restrict supply.

it is for what you get. the US LEC and CLEC system sucks, and I had wayyyy more options in the EU, and in fairly upfront and straightforward ways.

e.g. https://documentscontractuels.orange.fr/les-offres-orange-mo...