[crashandburn4]

The problem is that america is almost a monopoly, no other country really has these problems[0]

[0] http://blog.level3.com/global-connectivity/observations-inte...

[lotsofmangos]

Cheers for posting that, was pretty enlightening.

[crashandburn4]

No problem, I found it on hacker news and as always here the comments[0] are almost as enlightening as the piece itself.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699862

[lotsofmangos]

I'm in the UK and I thought the situation here was pretty terrible on the basis that if you go out into the sticks things get pretty slow. There's a joke, that BT develops core telecoms technologies and sells them across the world. Then when they are finally obsolete, it installs them in Britain. However it sounds like the US has cities running on worse than you get over here in farming villages.

[crashandburn4]

I've always thought of the UK as quite good but I'm in london so have easy access to fibre-optic.