[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/689876/average-mobile-sp...
Most people in urban areas can get deals like 300-500Mbps for < €30/month. I have symmetric 1Gbps and pay about the same, could get 8Gbps for €80 but have no use for it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_by_In...
My provider is SFR (the only one giving access to optical fiber in the small village where I live).
EDIT: I'm talking about home internet. For mobile internet, I pay 19.99€/month for unlimited access (5G), but I haven't done a speedtest.
The ISP that I currently use - Comcast Xfinity - is also the only cable provider in this area. I can get some mobile and satellite options, but they are all more expensive for lower speed and higher latency.
My current service is 130 a month for 200/20.
Its getting replaced: 50 bucks a month for 10gig fiber.
It's going to cost me 800 ish bucks to set up to take advantage of that (routing, switching, nic's)... I will still come out way ahead before the end of the year.
Competition has its benefits.
You're saying your Internet is fast enough for you, and that's fine and probably correct, but you're still getting slower speeds for higher prices than you should. You're also likely better situated than much of the rest of the country.
It never makes sense to me when people say how the US ranks last among developed countries on a bunch of metrics. Of course, that just means the US is indeed... less developed than those countries. If it's not fair to compare the US to Somalia, it's not fair to compare it to Sweden either. It just is what it is, somewhere between the two development extremes.
It’s also entirely factual to say that in comparison to other developed countries, the US lags in internet.
> other countries roughly in the same range as the US.
The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developed_country
I’m not sure how you can possibly argue that the US is not “developed”.
> The same range of what variable? How do you measure/define this?
Feel free to take any of those lists and compare the US to countries around them in those lists. The countries might differ slightly, but the notion of what is a “developed” country has been firmly established for a long time now.
The U.S. is considered developed only because it’s extremely rich. However, the general state of its infrastructure, education, governance, media, etc. is more typical of a developing country in many ways.
That’s my point: all these lists of things the U.S. is worse at than every developed country are collectively what it means to be developed, more so in my mind than just being rich.
Wtf!? Yes!
Now I'm curious what you thought developed means.
Anyway you're ignoring income. Seattle is around triple the median of France for example. You need to compare cities of similar size and income.
And what is your solution to that?
$40/month (if you don't rent a modem/eerio, which, why would you) for 10 gigs up and down, not to mention excellent customer service.
But I will happily admit that they're a bit of an outlier and the offerings in much of the country are complete shit.
Actual speeds are more like 5/7. But I’m happy!
Even if you deliver, surely you know that such a connection is an extreme, extreme outlier?
https://www.sonic.com/residential/internet
Looks like the prices must vary by location. They don’t have a price there.