[foxX]

It's directly linked to:

- ability, willingness, etc to tweak and upgrade your infrastructure

- how competition-friendly and pro-consumer your market is - the type of grants, contracts and industry ties your environment has (think special, prototype, maybe even government subsidized hardware, for example)

- reflects the amount of mastery over geography or nature itself - this is what successful countries pull

- is the economy market-driven or just a pocket bubble?

There might be others, but this is already quite damning imo. Also I need gigabit because that determines the size of my erection and i'd go to lengths such as paying FAIR prices for it.