• Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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    7 days ago

    Funny thing is dialup has been non viable for ~15 years if not more where I live. When you can get 100 mbit fibre for like $5 a month and it costs a whopping $12.5 dollars a month for a 1000 mbit fibre line, it makes no economic sense to offer dialup.

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        7 days ago

        Of course not.

        I remember when I first moved to the US and saw the broadband and cell phone prices. Corruption american style.

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        Yeah, probably not. If your country is the size of a postage stamp, it doesn’t take a whole lot of capital investment to run fiber through the entire thing. Whereas if your country is the size of the United States, it takes a fuck ton of capital investment to cover even a decent portion of it by laying lines like that.

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          My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.

          Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it’s unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.

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          Less to do with absolute size and more to do with urban density and population concentration.