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Why America Won't Match Sweden's Cheap, Fast, Competitive Internet Services
ashshy writes: Swedish Internet services run both cheaper and faster than American ones. For example, many Swedes can pay about $40 a month for 100/100 mbps, choosing between more than a dozen competing providers. It's all powered by a nationwide web of municipal networks in direct competition with ex-government telecom Telia's fiber backbone. The presence of regional government in the Swedish data stream makes many Americans uncomfortable, to say nothing of the very different histories between these backbone buildouts. The Motley Fool explains how the Swedish model developed, and why the U.S. is unlikely ever to follow suit.
if you would just stop meddling the invisible hand of the market would provide a solution!
Uh, Sweden is a socialist hellhole. Obviously you're not a Republican and you hate freedom.
Motley Fool.
I've read their "analyses" on things I actually know about. You might as well get your advice from Yahoo answers.
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
The invisible hand of the market is at work in the US. It's just giving US Internet users the invisible middle finger.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
If only we could put datagrams on bullets, we might at last get high speed internet!