• shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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    13 days ago

    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.

    • Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      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.

    • Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldOP
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      13 days ago

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