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| U.S. Broadband Leader? Not even close.
The problem with trying to compare the US to other countries is that those "other countries" with the great broadband 'this and that' is not 3000 miles wide, does not deal with two great mountain ranges, great rivers, does not deal with a huge area of homes that are 5 miles apart. nor does it kowtow to fork-tongued telephone company suits that talk out of both sides of their mouth at the same time. They own it. .
Welcome to rural America where dial-up is sometimes faster than DSL, competition is more likely between cable vs telephone, quoted speeds are flat, services is non-existent, and the puffery is knee deep. I have a better chance of catching bass with my teeth than I do of seeing a consistent 1.5 down even though I am paying for 6. Facts do not lie.
I danced the rural waltz for 15 years. I started with 28.8 modem. The best phone I've had in years is the VOIP provided by the best cable company I've had in years. It's local, it's small and it serves people. I can write a book about how bad three of the four largest phone companies are in America and how they rape and trade rural America. .
For a very short time I was hooked up with a local WISP. The 3rd party turnkey outfit was so dumb it went live with no anti-virus protection on a new XP optimized system. They sent me the same virus 7 times in one day. When I complained they denied it. So did the company where their severs were located. I sent them both a copy of the virus with a warning in the subject line. The server location verified and thanked me. The local IT genius who knew all about Linux opened it, WISP was down for a week. I was back on-line 2 hours later with a new Mac and AT&T. 
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