And neither do many households have a few thousand or even a few hundred bucks to spare, which is precisely why the argument "available access is if you could s

And neither do many households have a few thousand or even a few hundred bucks to spare, which is precisely why the argument "available access is if you could sign up" that I was responding to doesn't work. There is no place where you couldn't get broadband internet, and in most places within developed countries for a lot less than a billion, but that doesn't mean households could actually reasonably afford it. You would at least have to specify some price limit for availability.