The USA is run by a greedy oligarchy. Switzerland
is on the other hand closer to a direct democracy.
That explains a LOT. (It's not a full direct
democracy since they have representatives still,
but look at the current orange king and his cronies,
they are not going to fix anything but solely to
enrich themselves and delay investigations as to
who really organised the naughty parties at Epstein
islands. Could be called oligarch parties too. They
can hire underage people and the "justice" system
will not uncover anything.)
Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
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Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#312Ah yes, the classic gotcha: why doesn’t the world’s largest economy, spanning a continent, look exactly like a country of 9 million that fits inside West Virginia? Truly a mystery. Next up: why doesn’t the US have Monaco’s per capita yacht ownership?
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#313This article came up before. It's heavy on the clickbait, if you couldn't guess from the title. Some important points that they leave out: - 25G internet isn't available everywhere in Switzerland. It's just the fastest tier available in some locations. - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much hard…
The area of just the contiguous US is almost 200 times as big as Switzerland. Where did the 85 come from? Did you divide square miles by square kilometers?
That's exactly what he did. At least he didn't include any of the 300,000 square miles of water.
This argument somehow appears every time there is an article comparing American internet to another country's, regardless of the country. And it's such a lazy argument, you wouldn't expect them to even get the match correct.
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#314Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#315Ah yes, the classic gotcha: why doesn’t the world’s largest economy, spanning a continent, look exactly like a country of 9 million that fits inside West Virginia? Truly a mystery. Next up: why doesn’t the US have Monaco’s per capita yacht ownership?
This argument makes zero sense.
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#316This article came up before. It's heavy on the clickbait, if you couldn't guess from the title. Some important points that they leave out: - 25G internet isn't available everywhere in Switzerland. It's just the fastest tier available in some locations. - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much hard…
Yeah, what a biased piece of reporting.
Switzerland has one of the highest Internet prices in the world: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/internet-...
And don't talk to me about mobile data prices, it's out of the planet.
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#317This article came up before. It's heavy on the clickbait, if you couldn't guess from the title. Some important points that they leave out: - 25G internet isn't available everywhere in Switzerland. It's just the fastest tier available in some locations. - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much hard…
> The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland.
All other things being equal; it's a lot easier to dig huge amounts of fibre runs (following roads) where there isn't a heavy density of people.
Distance is practically meaningless for fibre optic cabling, but digging up historic cities, digging through mountain ranges, avoiding subways, plumbing and ensuring you have enough cables for the density of humans is hard.
Much harder than running cables between buildings that house 10 people which are 50ft away from each other.
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#318Earlier quoted context omitted.
I live in NYC, one of the most densely populated cities in the world, and yet Verizon Fios 1 Gbps is my only option. I tried to upgrade to Fios 2 Gbps, but it's not available. Spectrum only goes to 200Mbps; no other providers in my area. I have no idea if Switzerland is any better, but the US situation in 2026 is appalling. If we're this bad in NYC, imagine what someone in rural America goes through.
> but the US situation in 2026 is appalling. 1Gpbs symmetric is not 'appaling' come on now.
I guess I'm getting old, but I have to wonder what people are doing that they need more than a gigabit. I don't think I've ever been able to use more than about 50 mbit due to constraints on the other end.
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#319This article came up before. It's heavy on the clickbait, if you couldn't guess from the title. Some important points that they leave out: - 25G internet isn't available everywhere in Switzerland. It's just the fastest tier available in some locations. - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much hard…
All your points completely miss the point of the article, no?
Re: Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't
#320Earlier quoted context omitted.
> - The United States is 85 times larger than Switzerland. The entire country of Switzerland is the size of a small US state. Covering the US with broadband is much harder than Switzerland. I see this argument come up a lot with regards to all kinds of infrastructure, and the thing is it simply _isn't true_. What matters is population density, GDP per capita, geography, and will. A countries size doesn't matter since…
Wrong, there are scaling problems. Have you ever worked at both a very large and very small company? Were things that were easy at small companies much harder at large ones?
Do you imagine an infrastructure project in ANY country is managed like a project in a small company?