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  • How exactly are facts and maths cop outs?

    There are states with better fiber deployment than Switzerland.

    But generally, think of it as highway design. That’s the American way, after all, and it also stinks.

    Switzerland: mostly point-to-point where each home gets its own dedicated fiber strand. Upgrading to 25 Gbps can be as simple as swapping optics(multi spectrum) on each end. Some places in USA do this. Some offer 100 gbps, symmetrical.

    United States: mostly point-to-multipoint (PON: GPON/XGS-PON) One fiber is split among 32–64 homes. Everyone shares the bandwidth.

    And they say Americans don’t have socialism. But that’s the problem. When there’s socialism it’s the public subsidizing corporations.