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Failed Fibre start happened in the US too.

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Alex Atkin UK:

--- Quote from: Reformed on March 17, 2022, 10:13:55 PM ---Almost every US home has either full-fibre or cable service. The majority of the cable offers gigabit, and the networks are being upgraded to be able to provide multiple gigabits per second downstream and gigabit or more upstream.

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Its not quite that simple as a lot of the US is rural but the huge population density of major cities skew the statistics.

I remember watching Louis Rossman and even in New York if you get a crap or good provider depends entirely on what building you are in.  They do not encourage overlap in service offerings so its a lot more common for your neighbours to have good service and you not so much.

He was literally in the middle of New York and in his old building had upload so poor he couldn't livestream properly.

Reformed:
Entirely true that building owners provide exclusivity to operators. Same goes for entire housing developments there. Building owner negotiates a rate card with the provider and those are your options.

This guy in New York sounds like he had broken cable. It might well have been RCN. We have these issues but less often here.

On the topic of population density as mentioned the USA has cities with very sense centres, so do we, but then enormous urban sprawl out from them. New York City's population density is a bit less than twice Greater  London's, however the metro area including the sprawl is lower than the density of Greater London.

It's pretty expensive to get fibre from San Francisco to New York. A bunch of communities in the US look very similar to our Highlands islands in terms of costs.

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