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Google tried to break regional US monopolies with Google Fiber, which to my surprise is still going despite Google's best efforts to kill off projects that aren't immediately successful and is active in 19 US states or around 40 different cities.

The only way I can see this catastrophe ending is one of three ways:

1. Satellite internet - Elon Musk would need to massively drop the price of Starlink to encourage others to switch, or a competitor would need to pop up and offer similar service at a lower price point, likely through Blue Origin or Virgin Galactic.
2. The US collectively vote the Republicans out of office by a landslide and bring in a left-wing Democrat leader. Won't happen for so many reasons.
3. Mesh networks. Something like Freifunk but on a much bigger scale.

At 1Gbps, I think ours is one of the fastest in this part of Germany...

Cries in German

They will never give you more unless something forces them to. That could have been us, forcing them to, but we're shit at accomplishing those kinds of things.

Lmao. I have 25 Mbps. Let alone 25 Gbps. Thanks Malcolm turnballs

Thanks, this reminded me that I should check the competition for now. It's not as well designed infra as in Switzerland, but I should check for an open fibre that has several service providers.

I'm sure this will be lost in the comments but you CAN get 25GBit here in 'murica. My ISP offers it... But this ISP is also considered one of the best in the world so... https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/#choose-your-plan

Here in Sweden I have over 20 choices of providers, many with specific a focus. One that is superb, which is the one I have, don't do any tracking or information gathering at all. They are fully focused on privacy, an open Internet and have helped countries in need, like Ukraine, with hardware to keep Internet access on. They've been raided and taken to court over not following the required IP address storage laws and some other things of deliberately not collecting information. Their newsletter is so good too, all about privacy and relevant tech news. Seriously couldn't dream of a better ISP.

If the internet had been around back when the U.S. Constitution was written, instead of post offices, the framers would have put in ISPs.