Japan Is The Only Country Future-Ready for Broadband > Oddly, increased deployment of cheap tiers hurts our aver.

said by Lazlow:

The lines running city to city part of the equation is not the problem. It is within city (node to home, etc) that is the problem. While the density argument is somewhat appropriate, it not nearly as applicable when comparing our cities to their cities. The density differences (their cities to ours) is just not that great. Certainly not enough to account for 100/100 (there) being the same price as 5/512(here).