I think these two graphs are interesting. Fiber and low prices for broadband seems to be correlated (Japan, Korea). Unfortunately there isn't more data points i

I think these two graphs are interesting. Fiber and low prices for broadband seems to be correlated (Japan, Korea). Unfortunately there isn't more data points in the Economist graph. I think it helps if the fiber is owned by a party other than the access provider, e.g. the community or city, to avoid having a monopoly squeeze out all the consumer surplus. How will this work with Google Fiber? http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/original-size/images/2014/03/blogs/schumpeter/20140301_wbc414.png http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecac... http://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/images/oecd-broadband-June-2013-border_0.jpg http://www.nbr.co.nz/sites/default/files/images/oecd-broadba... Full html pages (where images were found): - http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/oecd-broadband-stats-show-nz-improving-still-could-do-better-internetnz-boss-ck-150641 http://www.nbr.co.nz/article/oecd-broadband-stats-show-nz-im... - http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/03/telecoms-mexico http://www.economist.com/blogs/schumpeter/2014/03/telecoms-m...