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But we aren't just talking about upgrades that were made in 90's. The network there is currently significantly faster than it is here. Even if it was primarily jump-started by large government funding, something kept it going, and it has kept growing while our infrastructure (at least as far as an end user is seeing) hasn't seen much of an upgrade. From what I can tell, US citizens have seen an upgrade of 10-30x what speeds were at the end of the 90's. Places like Tokyo have seen increases of 40-100x since then.