Obviously, the problem is not the technology, it's an antiquated government. A government that is run by bureaucrats, that don't know how to properly leverage technology, especially satellite technology.
I think it would also be reasonable to place some blame on telephone company monopolies/duopolies who are in a comfortable, profitable place and resistant to change.
Exactly, but I think one of the problems is that since government is filled with bureaucrats, who don't understand how easy it is to implement this, they instead listen to the phone company lobbyists, who says "this will be incredibly expensive and hard to enable"