This year, I had to file my business taxes on line. no paper, no mail, no checks. I paid with a credit card and it cost $.51.
So with this kind of growth those with no internet ability will be in trouble.
To assure compatibility everywhere across the country, the federal government can provide the universal service just as it did with telephone and electric service.
Electricity is standardized, run the wires, deliver the power. Telephone was standardized and stayed primitive for decades thanks to government-mandated monopoly. The last thing we need for internet is any kind of government mandate. That would get you crappy service quicker now, it would be DSL last two miles or so from fiber or wireless backbone. Then in 10 years you would still have crappy intermittent service while everyone else has moved on to low orbit satellite or other much better options.