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by everyone 72 days ago
"It’s not realistic or feasible to have the US government generate a fiber optic connectivity for the entirety of every household in the United States. In fact, the free market was the only realistic possible to deliver this."

Why? Other countries with similar population densities have done it. A bigger country should have an advantage due to economies of scale.
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Xunjin 72 days ago
I think he means it's not economic viable to the companies, however as you can see the Swiss model was defined by politics.

Even though, I agree with you it's possible, in my city the internet only got better when a monopoly was broken, and a state company decide to work in a new infrastructure, all FTTH, now I pay less than 100BRL for 300/150Mbps with that price 10 years ago it was only possible ADSL connections (25Mbps).

Now every major provider do have FTTH infra with great prices.

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ranman 72 days ago
Which countries? Density matters but raw volume matters too.
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