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Seems like if they built it out after fiber was cheaper and more common, they have it good. Meanwhile, to this day, my parents get, at best, 6mbps down from the ancient, shitty copper infra the telco put up ages ago. Thankfully, other options like various 5G home internet products are a common in rural towns now, at least in the Midwest. But wouldn’t beat fiber!

Germany is a special case actually because they just refused to go on the fiber train and instead kept doubling down on DSL. Goes all the way back to the administration from the 80s and onwards, it's finally changing tho.

Nah, don't buy it. That's a poor excuse for America's bad internet infrastructure and another one of those "it's because we're the first/best/bigger actually".

I live in France, growing up most homes were equipped with ADSL. Optical fiber was rolled slowly but surely over the entire territory, systematically replacing older infrastructure. It's now to the point that everyone I know enjoys fast internet, from the center of Paris to the middle of nowhere.

True, before fiber, 5 years ago, there was ADSL2 connection in my family house.