That’s horrible, I got fiber at home 1GB up and down. How can you expect a country to be at the top of things when you don’t invest.
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Carvex@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoIf Netherlands was a US state it would be ranked 42/50 in area. We have zero-population zones larger than your whole country. Our government refused to spend taxpayer money properly on telecom infrastructure since the 1990s so some of us are stuck here with Pony Express internet, it’s awful.
Oh and now our corrupt gov wants to eliminate “wasteful” fiber in exchange for Musk becoming a trillionaire with Starlink. Lovely.
Ron@zegheteens.nl 3 weeks ago
BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 weeks ago
By sabotaging all the other countries that are dependent on our corporations. The problem is that most of our corporations don’t even make anything anymore, so everyone is starting to get wise
singletona@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Add in the fact when Comcast got subsidies to improve infrastructure they fucked off with the money and never got punished for it.