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The Free Market Lie: Why Switzerland Has 25 Gbit Internet and America Doesn't
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this post was submitted on 03 Jul 2026
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You’re but ONE in a population of billions… « nobody » is a tad of an extrapolation based on you as a sample. I would gladly have more bandwidth. I have services that consumes a lot of it, we are 5 under the roof and everyone likes to stream & d/l on steam…
So between you and I it’s 50% in need of more bandwidth.
👌👍 all 12 of you
Everyone here just hinges they're existence on edge cases. And then asks to be subsidized 🙄
My point is; maybe you are the edge case… you are the one making over-généralisations. Which, through time, will likely be found to be plainly false.
There was a time when ISDN was deemed unnecessary for home users that were relegated to 56k bauds.
And now look at your 2gbps. Then consider 10 years from now.
I’m working in telco / isp and bandwidth is certainly a topic we like to scale based on the increase of average traffic from homes.
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You just said if people were buying the telocos would scale up 🤣