[citation][nom]TheCapulet[/nom]America is extremely backwards in terms of internet speeds. Not as bad as south africa by the sounds of it... But overall, America blows. And it's less because of technology, and more because of politicians focusing more on limiting certain technologies while completely neglecting the most important ones.Same situation where third world countries have extremely hard time getting food support from other countries because of their government. America has some extreme difficulties in getting fast, reliable, and fairly priced, because the government couldnt care less. They're more worried about keeping our bleeding out corrupt banks and decrepit automakers from dying. But that's what happens when you're government is controled by 60-70 year olds. They'd rather bitch about 4 channel broadcast TV then the mountains of other stupid shit that continues to get worse and worse.[/citation]
I'd have to say yes and no. On one hand our government (both parties) allowed monopolies in communication/cable for decades. Competition is what drives innovation, lowers prices and generally makes things better for all. There's definitly an argument to be made that this is a large reason we're so far behind.
The other factor though is that it is a huge undertaking delivering the infrastucture to 95% of the country (not population). Take Kansas City here. The metro can fit London AND Paris in it's borders yet the population can't match either one of those cities. (techincal term is Metroplex) There's a lot more cost involved with less profit. I'm not making excuses here cause I'm sick to death of being screwed over by Time Warner, just stating the fact that the cost is more than 2:1 here over other countries.
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