I live in a rental apartment in a small town in Sweden. The building owner installed fiber to every apartment and I now have a choice of 8 ISPs. I can get 1 Gbps symmetrical for $80 a month. I currently pay $28 a month for 100/10 Mbps. This is the basically the norm here in Sweden, unless you live in rural areas. But even single-family homes miles from the nearest neighbour sometimes get fiber, because electrical utilities pull fiber when replacing old electrical grids. And then you have a choice which ISP to connect to. We call this "black fiber" and this really is the perfect solution to the last-mile-problem. The utility or building owner own and maintain the hardware but bit-shuffling is done by ISPs independently. It really isn't that hard.
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Sweden is #190 on that list. We have cheap and excellent broadband options. Not a valid excuse.
I live in a rental apartment in a small town in Sweden. The building owner installed fiber to every apartment and I now have a choice of 8 ISPs. I can get 1 Gbps symmetrical for $80 a month. I currently pay $28 a month for 100/10 Mbps. This is the basically the norm here in Sweden, unless you live in rural areas. But even single-family homes miles from the nearest neighbour sometimes get fiber, because electrical utilities pull fiber when replacing old electrical grids. And then you have a choice which ISP to connect to. We call this "black fiber" and this really is the perfect solution to the last-mile-problem. The utility or building owner own and maintain the hardware but bit-shuffling is done by ISPs independently. It really isn't that hard.