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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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[–] 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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