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#lowpopulationdensity would be a better explanation. Mobile network infrastructure cost is going to be broadly inversely proportional to population density, and UK has about 8 times the population density of the USA. Market penetration rates are almost exactly the same, so users per cell tower are going to be on average about 8 times higher in the UK.
If you think regulatory burden is a significant factor in the difference between market rates for a given bundle between the two territories, you need to explain which regulations are burdensome and which territory's citizens are over-paying for their mobile contracts as a result. Prima facie, it looks like 'merkins are getting the coverage they deserve based on paying about half as much after correcting for population density.