Yet we continue to fall behind on overall broadband ranking because of things like greed, atrocious TOS and other things.
We continue to fall behind because of lacking demand. If everyone subscribed to the top broadband speed tier available to them, the service providers would get more aggressive about expansion.
Maybe someday UNICEF will take of the cause of providing gigabit broadband to all of the nation's children, but until then network spending is going to be driven by profitability.