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.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 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.

[–] filthy_lint_ball@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

The article is about America, as a country, being compared to Switzerland, the country.

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