It's cheaper per capita to roll out fibre to 50 million people than to 5 million; no-one can seriously argue otherwise. This alone shows how broken the system is. Not only broadband but also healthcare and other services should be extremely cheap and well tested in the US in locations with a high density of people. That it is often as broken in high density areas as in rural areas baffles the mind. As a Scandinavian I'm often chocked how the US isn't number one. It really should be.