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Very nice. In switzerland we only have 4 mbits basic coverage but everbody has by law to get it anywhere he lives. The internet is too essential for all knowledge driven economies and therefore should be guaranteed for every citizen like water and power.

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I have 4Mbits and I very rarely feel the need for more. Even for large isos. But I don't use it for TV and phone at the same time.

If you're really motivated you can make a tiny proxy too, too improve DNS and HTTP response times, caching stuff and filtering ads at the network level.

Easy for such a small country to say. Canada's population is much more spread out, over a much larger space.

This a common argument I encounter, and it is a bit of a straw man.

The offerings in densely populated areas are not better.

Canada's population is highly urbanized and concentrated in cities near our southern border. More urbanized than Switzerland (GP comment). Not an explanation for our uncompetitive mobile and broadband data markets.

Canada urban population: 81.8% of total population (2015)

Switzerland urban population: 73.9% of total population (2015)

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