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The United States bay be big, but it still has double the population density of New Zealand and yet New Zealand has high avaliability of cheap gigabit fibre.

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That’s hardly a fair comparison when 1/3 of the population of NZ lives in Auckland.

Does every single place and person in NZ have super fast internet? NZ and Australia both have a huge portion of their populations in their major cities or around them. It is not at all the same as comparing to the US’s population density.

How about the densest place in continental US? NY Manhattan, 1st Avenue - choice is Verizon DSL or Spectrum Business Cable.

"New York Votes to Kick Spectrum Cable Out of the State" https://fortune.com/2018/07/29/spectrum-communications-kicke...

"New York City sues Verizon for not completing citywide fiber network" https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/14/nyc-sues-verizon/

Yes, many rural areas in New Zealand have super fast internet. The same can not be said for Australia.

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