[michaelt]

As I understand it, historically in the US many people have only had access to one broadband provider.

So an American couldn't move to a different broadband provider if their current provider made Netflix slow.

On the other hand, if 5G technology had such great performance and coverage that every American had a choice of 10-15 different ISPs, when one ISP slowed down Netflix they could simply change providers.

That might make it less problematic for some ISPs to make Netflix slow.