I take exception to your implication that the US lags behind other countries in terms of Infrastructure. There are two classes of Internet access in the US: Re

I take exception to your implication that the US lags behind other countries in terms of Infrastructure. There are two classes of Internet access in the US: Residential/SMB and Enterprise. We have a second world Residential/SMB bandwidth economy, but I would argue that the US has the only true first world Enterprise Bandwidth Economy. If you think of laid capacity in terms of terabits, the US is the clear winner. The ISPs built massive highways but they didn't build the community roads necessary for normal people to tap into all this capacity. The bottlenecks for residential bandwidth are at the DSLAMs at the bottom of your street and not in the core routing systems for the biggest carriers. It's tragic, but the US has a super stratified system. Enterprise users get amazing cheap bandwidth and everyone else is second class.