said by funchords:said by Soybomb:This is spot on. I've never understood why people find it startling that the US doesn't have the most developed broadband network. The US is an enormous country with a very low population density. Of course Japan is going to have a better network, we're talking about a jillion people in a small area, easy to make a good ROI quickly.
That excuse doesn't wash.
Four years, four different addresses, I've never lived in the "sticks" and I've never had fiber optic available to me at any one of them.
Thank your legislators and the ridiculously outdated FCC who allow big corporations to cherry pick the most lucrative areas for network development and new product roll out. Low population areas aren't worth the investment in infrastructure.
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