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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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Switzerland can be driven from top to bottom in about 4 hours. The entire country. It’s tiny. That’s how.
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.
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.
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
The article is about America, as a country, being compared to Switzerland, the country.
Europe is about 10% larger than the US, if you exclude Alaska.
Yeah, and Europe as a whole doesn’t have this internet. Switzerland does.
What they're doing can be done at scale. Instead we scream about socialism like monkeys throwing poop at each other.
It can be done at scale, it’ll just cost trillions of dollars.