While the population dense areas may be farther apart in the US, the fiber is already in place between all of the major US cities, and in many smaller towns to boot.
The problems with our speeds have very little to do with how spread out we are. We could still have 10mb apartment buildings, but we don't. Why is that? Not because there are not enough people in those buildings. Maybe because the Cable/RBOC companies have no incentive to get to that point. Of couse it is expensive to put the fiber in, but if they were willing to put it in and charge a resonable price, they would easly get their ROI from the number of people that would sign up.
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While the population dense areas may be farther apart in the US, the fiber is already in place between all of the major US cities, and in many smaller towns to boot. The problems with our speeds have very little to do with how spread out we are. We could still have 10mb apartment buildings, but we don't. Why is that? Not because there are not enough people in those buildings. Maybe because the Cable/RBOC companies have no incentive to get to that point. Of couse it is expensive to put the fiber in, but if they were willing to put it in and charge a resonable price, they would easly get their ROI from the number of people that would sign up.