But US broadband doesn't suck. I invite you to play around with this neat tool from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-rep

But US broadband doesn't suck. I invite you to play around with this neat tool from Akamai: https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/state-of-the-internet-connectivity-visualization.jsp https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/our-thinking/state-of-the-inter... With a couple of notable exceptions (Sweden, South Korea), the US has as good or better average connection speeds & penetration of high-bandwidth service than its peer developed nations. Italy, France, Germany, Australia all lag the US, some substantially. Personally, my cable-based service has seen regular step-ups in bandwidth with a much lower rate of increase in price. If Powell had insisted on "open access" to last-mile ISP networks 15 years ago, would the capital investments in wired networks have played out as they did? Or would the market have looked like DSL in the US, nominally "competitive" by regulatory fiat, but stagnant?