It was developed for the army and later between universities. You should probably do some research into it before you spout stuff like that.
It's the poster child against nationalizing services, as we have built it and paid billions into it and to utility companies who "rent it" on the promise they'd upgrade it (which they often fail to do to any promised degree).
1: AT&T argues over redefinition of "broadband" from 4 to 25 and settles on 10 Mbps, which would require it to upgrade infrastructure in rural areas to continue receiving hundreds of millions in funds 2 - Figure - chart of state money that CenturyLink received in 2015 by state to fund operations and meet infrastructure requirements 3 - Figure - chart of internet providers accepting $1.5billion annually 4 - internet companies omit statistics to falsify promised internet speeds 5 - Americans wasted $400bil in surcharge and taxes that was obligated to build home fiber optic network for 30% of Americans that never came