Hong Kong's government is very well run and largely corruption-free. It is an institutional legacy of the British civil service. They also have arguably the f

Hong Kong's government is very well run and largely corruption-free. It is an institutional legacy of the British civil service. They also have arguably the freest economy in the world, which reduces the potential for corruption. America's Congress, on the other hand, created a national scheme of myriad local cable "franchises" or monopolies, which are historically awarded to connected insiders. U.S. phone service, the other major source of broadband, is also highly regulated and only the courts (ATT Breakup, MCI long distance case) forced America's greedy political class from keeping telecom as a national monopoly. Telecom, as an industry, is still the #1 or #2 source of political donations. That's why your broadband sucks.