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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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No the actual answer is that AT&T never spent federal money on actually upgrading their infrastructure for resedntial fiber service.
It would be natural for everyone to be on an 10Gb XGS-PON standard because it's the latest standard. There'd be little cost difference for an ISP in upgrading stuff with something cheaper.
I can saturate a 5Gb connection no sweat lol. Unified upload/download speeds makes all that p2p tech way the hell more viable.
๐๐ you're definitely not an edge case. Everyone is clamoring for bandwith here ๐