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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

Yeah, probably not. If your country is the size of a postage stamp, it doesn’t take a whole lot of capital investment to run fiber through the entire thing. Whereas if your country is the size of the United States, it takes a fuck ton of capital investment to cover even a decent portion of it by laying lines like that.

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Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
My country is as big as the US and we can get 500 Mbs fibre for $23, less than half what AT&T charges.

Is not the size of the country that make fibre costs to be so high in US, it’s unchecked, exploitative capitalism allowed by a corrupt plutocratic government.

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- ToastedRavioli@midwest.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  You mean Canada? Or Australia? Countries where they are as big of a landmass but people dont actually live in remotely close to the entire thing? 95% of people in Canada live in a 100 mile stretch of the southern part of it. Australia is the same way with the costs versus the interior… its not remotely comparable even if they are the same size on a technical basis
  
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  - Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Brazil. Our population density map is not that different from the US, only it’s over one long shore, instead of three (four if you count the great lakes as a shore). Still, even deep into the Amazon region, like the city of Manaus, you can have 600 Mbps fibre for less than US$20.
    
    Size of the country of population density is not the reason internet access is expensive in the US. Greed and corruption are.
    
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    SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Incomes are lower in Brazil so they have to have lower prices. Avg income in the US is 4x that of Brazil.
    
    www.nationmaster.com/…/Cost-of-living
    
    I wouldn’t point fingers at the US from Brazil when it comes to corruption.
    
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corruption_in_Brazil
    
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  - Zeoic@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Canada has even worse competition and higher prices than the states lol
    
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scott@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Bullshit excuses. They were given bank ass roll to build that shit out proper and just pocketed it.

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- shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I said absolutely nothing about government subsidies, and in another comment, further down the thread, I even said that if a company gets government subsidies to do so, and does not do so, they should be made to pay the money back with interest.
  
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  - scott@lemmy.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I’m just talking about the reality of what happened in the US, not some hypothetical
    
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Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Less to do with absolute size and more to do with urban density and population concentration.

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