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Originally Posted by masraum
"Business" service is different (and more expensive) than home/residential/consumer service. The service in your home has no SLAs, and the equipment used is generally cheaper equipment that has far fewer features.
I believe this is the main reason for the big difference.
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/usa-europe-same-size.html
The US has ENORMOUS areas of super low population density, and running fiber through those areas is VERY costly. And Europe has over twice the population to foot the bill for Internet and fiber which means that the cost can be spread out over more bills, meaning each individual may pay a smaller portion of the total cost. At least, that's what makes the most sense to me. |
Maybe. But I believe the way our Internet laws are set up matters as well. My local fibre network is privately owned but required by law to let any ISP into network. So I have a dozen of ISP's to chose from, and each of them offers different speed tiers between 10Mbit to 1Gbit. And local network cannot take different fees from them.
Germany on the other side, is 3:rd world country when it comes to internet, despite having higher population density.