This sort of veiled insult is not friendly or productive. To provide useful input, I will say I get 100mbps for $50 now, and can get a lot more data for a little more money, but I don't need more at the moment.

Well, the question is less about speed, and more about availability of choice. How many ISPs serve your area, and how many of them have data caps?

That would be a lot more interesting to know.

The "in some areas you have two options to choose from" just sounds completely crazy, like something you’d hear in Soviet Russia, not in the west.

In 2011? Yeah, I think that was reasonable.

The same company is now offering 400Mbps and up to 1Gbps in select areas.

The US ranks in the top 20 globally in regards to consumer Internet speeds, coming in ahead of: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Russia, Italy, Greece, Austria, Israel, Turkey, Ireland and the UK. In fact, the US has improved so much, it need only climb 3mbps to catch Japan on average consumer Internet speed, a drastic catch-up compared to the recent past. Further, most of the nations that rank in front of the US are tiny population wise.

Not only is your poor attempt at an insult bad manners here, you're also wrong.

First, it wasn’t an insult, second, just flagging a discussion down is even worse manners, and third,

I wasn’t questioning the availability of the speed itself (that might be quite good now), but the availability of choice.

And a sentence like "in some areas you can even choose between two options" is a sentence that you’d expect to hear in Soviet Russia. Or in North Korea. Or China. Or East Germany.

Not in the country that used to stand for competition, free market capitalism, and choice: the US.

And going from "'Even the Politburo doesn’t have this choice. Not even Mr. Gorbachev,' [Yeltsin] said.", to "some areas are served by two cable providers" is definitely a fall.