If you take the mean population density of 62 per sq. km, that's roughly the same as Ukraine, which is a 3rd world country currently at war with Russia, yet 1 Gb internet there is $15 USD.
A truly incredible number of errors in one single sentence. The US mean population density is actually about half that:
35.6/km^2. The Ukraine is a
Second World country, their broadband internet is
59th fastest in the world (the US is tenth), Internet penetration rates there are far lower than in the US, and if you adjust that $15 figure based on the
difference in wages between the US and Ukraine, it jumps to $194/month.
The entire reason for that $15 figure is
because of that war with Russia -- it's caused their currency to drop like a stone, giving the illusory appearance that prices are cheap, when in reality common citizens struggle to find even a sum as small as $15. Based simply on currency exchange rates, the
cheapest nation for broadband is Syria, a nation which civil war has torn asunder. Would you prefer to live there?
The number of people per square km isn't a wholly translatable metric to the cost of broadband. Many [sic] of that area is the US is unpopulated or farmland.
As a share of the nation, there's
much more farmland in Ukraine than the US (72% of the total nation.) In any case, areas with farms have farmers, and those farmers also desire broadband. In the US, they mostly have it. In Ukraine, they mostly don't.
1. US Citizens do pay an additional fee on their bill that is supposed to go to rural network expansion. Of which Verizon has gotten in trouble on with the New York state attorney general.
I think you're confusing the FCC
Universal Service Fund charge with a recently-passed New-York state only broadband fee. As for the USF, the FCC spends most of it in other areas than rural broadband expansion: its latest disbursement tranche was a mere $193 million per year over ten years, for which 100+ carriers bid to provide new service to 700,000 remote locations.
for "the world's greatest nation", I'm awfully tired of people making excuses of why things can't be done. How about someone with the qualifications finally starts getting something done.
By "getting it done", you seem to mean either repealing the laws of economics, or requiring the government to enforce your personal desires as law.