Australia supposedly learned during the 90s that stringing coax and copper over the same telegraph poles was a bad idea, when essentially they accomplished the same thing. So now the Federal Government hived off an infrastructure company to provide one physical link into peoples' homes. This ment that there is a two tier system one that provides the infrastructure, the other that provides the service.
The US however is hamstrung by a patchwork of telco/cable providers each with their own exclusive geographical patch of wires and services. The video below is tech's community's complaint. One that says customers don't have choice.
Why does South Korea get it better than the US? Partly geography, and partly the drive of federalism that ensures everyone has necessary infrastructure. We have left the government to manage roads, water, sewage. These are monopolies in the public good. So too the telecommunication cables running into our homes. Let an authority manage the infrastructure, and a business provide services through it. A model adopted here in Australia for Electricity and Gas, seems to work, keep the NBN alive.
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