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China controls it's own access. America does not it's not paid for by taxpayers in any literal sense and won't be if ever. The labor is cheap most live in third world conditions have you been to China? Don't think for a second that most of China has access to a fiber connection it's just not true. People still on boats and in what we would call a shanty. The cities aren't bad overall but don't forget the other over half a billion chinese there.

Japan is a very concentrated set of islands I would expect nothing less for what little area they have to cover to bring it to most people.

The United States lacking in overall broadband coverage is mainly due to the factor of it's size and urban sprawls. It's easy for a country such as Sweden or even Japan and South Korea to build out infrastructure and in the case of the latter two subsidize it greatly and openly. American urban areas are ribboned along the east and west coast and along the the great lakes and rivers. Private companies don't always handle that specific area as well so you might only see a buildout to a decent income areas or only the areas they are responsible for (why would they pay for their competitors?). The same exact thing happens with cell phone coverage and towers where a new company will find itself locked out of decent or prime spots since the major players have those on lockdown and might not even lease access to you and if they do it costs you an arm and a leg.

Someone please find another country that spans as much area as the United States with a similar population and show us how they have been doing with their internet rollouts. Canada isn't even an option due to low population and the biggest density is roughly 500 miles or less from the american border anyways.

Most americans living in a state or urban area usually have access to average to above average broadband barring special circumstances (suburbs ghetto old area).

Downtown areas in most cities I have lived or visited that have around 100k populations or more have fiber primarily for businesses but the sonet rings do exist.

This problem is similar to the one where people throw out statistics about how other countries have a better overall educational system. It's true and misleading at the same time. Sure if America was a small player such as any of the single eurpean union nations or korea or even japan we would have just as good coverage for internet as well as our education.

It's a little shortsighted to compare a country that might be the size of just one of our states or smaller (We have fifty of them remember) and some states even have higher GDPs of most of the countries people compare.