The EU has traditional MNCs like Bouygues, Orange, or SFR who identify these startups as threats and neutralize them through legislation or acquisition.
The broadband competition in most of Europe seems much, much healthier than in basically all of the US.
Speed is higher, prices are significantly cheaper and in a lot of countries fiber to home is widely available.
Those traditional carriers (which I note are all French and you forgot to mention Free, which pretty much kicked their collective asses) don't seem to do much to thottle that. Do they?
