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Just got fiber deployed to my small city here in France, and I now pay 40 euros a month for 900 down / 500 up, with a free phone line and IPTV access. We're bar
by nolok 7y ago
Just got fiber deployed to my small city here in France, and I now pay 40 euros a month for 900 down / 500 up, with a free phone line and IPTV access. We're barely 8000 people and surrounded by farmers fields for kilometers around.
And I'm still jealous of eastern countries like romania where they get better for cheaper.
I don't know how such a high development country as the US can tolerate those ridiculous price, bandwith and data caps.
- cl0rkster 7y agoThis is a bit of an old trope. "Size matters". I'm not defending the American ISP abominations like interference in allowing municipal fiber to be built, and denying access to poles so new competitors can't access public infrastructure to build a competing service without unreasonable barriers to entry. All this anti-competitive crap... Right on, I'm with you. However... America is ENORMOUS compared to any European state... and mostly unoccupied. And our government only recognizes the decaying Telco system as a public utility that we all need access to... Nevermind. I don't understand either. It's just fully stupid. The size will make it cost more... Not recognizing it's worth it... For that there are no excuses.
- dahfizz 7y agoEurope is over 3x as population dense as the usa. Europe also doesn't have American suburbs, so even small European towns are very population dense within the city limits. America is too spread out for the capex of fiber to be worth it outside of major cities.