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Providing Broadband in the United States Costs More Than in Europe [pdf] (itif.org)
1 point by giuliomagnifico on July 14, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


> Because the U.S. and European broadband industries are composed of markedly different labor markets, serve customers with different geographic makeups, are subject to differing taxes and subsidies, and must allocate different proportions of their revenues to various costs in order to stay competitive, to ignore these inherent differences in the two markets is to write a false story of the regulatory differences that have made one market “succeed” where the other has “failed.” And the real story is that…U.S. companies [have] not failed…[they’ve] consistently boasted high metrics of success and managed to sustain the new normal through a global pandemic…




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