| Honestly this reads like a badly-written propaganda that relies on no messured statistic. From okla's Speedtest Global Index: Fixed broadband (median download):
US: #9 306.86 Mbps
Switzerland: #10 300.70 Mbps Mobile:
US: #11 205.71 Mbps
Switzerland: #42 118.93 Mbps the "25 Gbit" is top tier prodcut that while avablie in the US (sure not the whole country) it's not sometinhg the avg in both coutnries actully buy/use... > why Switzerland has such fast internet at a reasonable price also on prices the per 2023 (couldn't find any newer resoruces) [2] 100 Mbps in the US seems a bit cheaper in the US than swizerland (but the diffrnece is honestly neligable to begin with) > Every home gets a dedicated 4-strand fiber line. Point-to-Point. Not shared. Not split 32 ways. form a quick serach, this seems to simply be not true, FTTP coverage is 50% in swizerland (comapred to 69% in europe) and 27% in rural areas (compared to 58% in rural europe) per 2024 [3] > The United States prides itself on free markets boradcam is one of the most regualted/restricted markets in teh U.S (for better or worse) so it really isn't really free market ... Local governments grant the cable/telecom franchise and levy franchise fees up to 5% of gross revenue (Cable Act 1984, 47 U.S.C. §542). Entrants also need government-controlled pole and right-of-way access; pole/permit fights are what stalled Google Fiber. And ~16–17 states legally restrict or ban municipal broadband. Section 301 China tariffs (10–25%) since 2018 (Trump) hit optical fiber, routers, and network electronics. Biden's 2021 Infrastructure Act (IIJA) also restriected using some certin chinesse technology when buidling internet infrastructure. [1] https://www.speedtest.net/global-index [2] https://www.picodi.com/us/bargain-hunting/internet-prices-20... [3] https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/57c... |