[polonbike]

Same here (except Chile). It's weird/sad/expected because of Comcast & others that the US are still not reliably connected everywhere. From the country that brought us the internet!? In my (European) country, you have to live in a swamp far away from everything to not have FTTH legibility, in the same ballpark prices as the comment above. Static IP as a (free) opt-in.

[disgruntledphd2]

To be fair, the US is much less dense than a lot of Europe. Ireland has a similar density, and rural areas have pretty crummy coverage.

[jen20]

That explains why you can't get decent service in rural Montana, but not in San Francisco! The best fiber services around (other than Google) tends to be the municipal ones that don't give one of the big operators space to pull their bullshit though.

[disgruntledphd2]

Yeah totally, it's not a perfect comparator, but given that the rest of Western Europe is much, much denser I thought that it was important to note.

The crummy service in cities apparently is due to regulatory capture, while the good EU service is again down to regulation, but in a much better way.