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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't (stefan.schueller.net)
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[–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Most European countries have 10G, it's nit about the country size. And it's mostly in the cities anyway, which just completely remove the "the US is too big" defence.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    It’s absolutely about scale. It’s super easy to build high speed fibre to every house when your entire country can be seen in a single day trip. Not so much when it takes a week to drive from one side to the other without stopping.

    Most European countries are tiny.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    You realize that each state in the US can be seen as a country too, right? If you didn't only have a tiny handful of private, greedy ISPs, you'd literally have the same situation as europe, except that country = state and continent = federated states.. just because the country USA as a whole is big does not change anything and is just american exceptionalism

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Europe is about 10% larger than the US, if you exclude Alaska.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, and Europe as a whole doesn’t have this internet. Switzerland does.

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