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> Here we have the richest country in the world, inventor of the internet with the most innovative tech companies with the absolute worst internet experience among developed countries

It makes sense when you consider that the US has a much higher resistance to business regulation and consumer protection- less overhead for innovative new businesses but also allowing entrenched interests to consolidate as much as they have.

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The thing is, the company they are talking about is probably operating with regulatory monopoly over the lease/permission to run coax to homes.

Here I can get high speed cable or crappy DSL and that's the options that exist for wired service. Both of them are incumbent regulatory monopolies.

The city of Alameda originally had municipal coax network throughout the island - but the city council voted to turn over control of the network to comcast - and they dont allow any municipal networks to be installed...

I wonder who got bribed for that one?

A more plausible alternative explanation is that that way the city doesn't have to continue to pay maintenance for the network.

I consider local ISP monopolies the definition of onerous business regulation.

But that's the long and the short of it. No competition and no incentive to improve.

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