Places outside the city that don't have these kinds of fiber connections aren't this lucky.
Actually the Zurich build out was only financed by the tax payer to be done by the electric company and Swisscom. Internet providers must each have equal options to lease the last mile from whoever built it out in a given city or town; it isn't free.
Comcast's only innovation in the last few years has been to add data caps to residential fiber service (my 300mb/s "1.2 GBps" is capped at 1.4TB/mo).
Doing that just leads to 20 more years of Comcast killing the concept of modern Internet service for Americans. Cite both numbers.
One is over a mile down the road and they want $90,000 to connect and then $1750 a month for 1gbps. Another company is two blocks away, they will only charge $8,000 to connect and it’s $1,550 a month for the same speed.
Problem is there aren’t many other companies in the area that want service, so we would end up paying all the buildout costs. The other business are small retail, restaurants and shops that don’t need more than coax (150/20 or whatever for $79/month) from Spectrum.
Most of my devices are wireless so I really don't take advantage of the speed.
If you're unlucky enough to live in a place where the phone company is operating old degraded DSL on copper phone lines, and doesn't care to overbuild it with single mode fiber for GPON, and the cable TV company is also something similarly large and slightly evil like Comcast, you're almost out of luck. This is a political and regulatory problem that allows the local franchise agreement for the phone company and cable tv company to be renewed in perpetuity without demanding solid metrics for improvement of service.
If you are very fortunate, there will be an entirely single mode fiber-based third-party provider which competes with the previous two mentioned things. Doing what's called and "overbuild" as a new entrant for this is very capital intensive and requires a lot of physical outside plant cabling work and infrastructure at layer 1 in the OSI model. It also requires appropriate cooperation from whichever local entity owns and controls the wood utility poles (again, a political problem).
I have 2Gbit down/up but for a long while I didn’t bother fixing my cables that limited the speed to 100Mbit because I just couldn’t see the point.
The only thing that changed now is that my Steam downloads complete much faster than I expect.
But, still, installing fiber is just expensive.
Much more expensive than almost anything else, and requires skill and experience to terminate the connections, and that's even overlooking any regulatory hurdles of digging along the right-of-way, private and public land ownership issues, the costs of the equipment, and the fragility of the fiber itself once installed.
None of those costs really scale. In fact, they increase linearly as the pool of available installers decreases, and that's not even talking about the cost of connecting that fiber to anything on the other end.
They're well-known as a for-geeks-by-geeks service. I was massively impressed by them when I lived in CH.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it not Sweden or Germany but Switzerland...Germany has bad internet too, but hey that mistake happens even to the best ones (like Bush Junior)
But Switzerland has a 504% larger population density and 99.56% smaller land area as compared to the United States so my point still stands.
https://broadbandnow.com/New-York
>26.1% of New Yorkers have access to 1 gigabit broadband.
25Gbps symmetric for about $70/month. That's significantly less than I pay Comcast for its crappy 900Mbps down/40Mbps up service.