> It's not really fair to make cross country comparisons between countries with vastly different geographies.
It's fairer than you'd think. There were some articles in the last few years (summarized at Ars Technica, I think) about how the US is really, really average at delivering residential network bandwidth at a decent cost, compared against a wide variety of countries.
The thing that struck me about it was that the countries in the comparisons varied a lot politically (highly regulated vs. largely free market, etc.) and in terms of varying population density. I think the main conclusion I drew was that there isn't really one simple explanation for why we're pretty mediocre at this. We just have a crappy system.
It's fairer than you'd think. There were some articles in the last few years (summarized at Ars Technica, I think) about how the US is really, really average at delivering residential network bandwidth at a decent cost, compared against a wide variety of countries.
The thing that struck me about it was that the countries in the comparisons varied a lot politically (highly regulated vs. largely free market, etc.) and in terms of varying population density. I think the main conclusion I drew was that there isn't really one simple explanation for why we're pretty mediocre at this. We just have a crappy system.