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Until last year 3mb/s was one of two options available to me, the other was 15mb/s with terrible ping and an extremely low download/upload limit. Fortunately, Utah hasn't allowed these companies to stifle competition and now my highest speed available is 100Gb/s fiber connection, though I only pay for 300mb/s.

What specific policies has Utah adopted to incentivize these speeds?

According to the article, in this case, the customer is loyal to AT&T, who only offers 3MBps, where other competitors in the area offer up to 200. He should probably just switch to a competitor. It's not like they're going to suddenly decide to offer high speed internet in his area because of the stunt. They likely have no plans to, despite saying they're "working on it".

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture

I am aware of the concept, but curious if this is the case here.