The solution is straightforward. Create a Municipal internet service and force the large providers to compete against it. When the people do not set a standard of expectations, companies will ALWAYS race to the bottom.
The US is roughly 216 times bigger than Estonia... the state of NY itself is 5x bigger than Estonia. It’s easy to provide coverage to a country that tiny.
Love how they couch the importance of this on rich people moving out into rural areas! Haha. I spend my teens in a rural area dealing with... 28kbps!!! Yeah, let's all pretend that Bloomberg cares about this issue. Thanks for saving us, rich people!!!!
If people stopped paying for cellular internet, then the isps would be forced to expand the cable network acress the country. Then people would be able to get better internet. Only problem is, people are too cheap to pay for it.
@@alexm566 How about countries like India or Indonesia, both being roughly the same size if not bigger than the US, which have better rural internet connections? Also, remember that the aforementioned countries are developing nations whereas the US is a first world superpower.
@@alexm566 Excuse if I'm being a little political, but.. if USA is not spending too much money on military and wars, probably they can solve that problem easily. I mean.. USA is biggest economy in the world so I think large area is isn't so much of a problem.
@@AkunSayaYT I agree, but that doesn't mean the whole country is a lost cause like that previous comment. We invented the internet ffs with all of its hardware and software out of the military budget that you're so upset about.
they rather spend the tax money on illegal wars meddling in other countries affairs or creating illegal coups. all that with your tax money. instead of fixing this problem or any other problem in america. america will never be fixed trust me.
If people stopped paying for cellular internet, then the isps would be forced to expand the cable network acress the country. Then people would be able to get better internet. Only problem is, people are too cheap to pay for it.
@@stocktrader9861 just "stop paying for cellular internet" when that is the ONLY internet that works for htem.. and then what.. wait for years for them to install cable all over rural America? ?LOLOL OK
This report leaves out two things. First, in many rural areas, especially in red states, municipalities are prohibited by state law from developing their own municipal internet systems. If the internet service in rural areas was treated as a public utility then it would be responsive to its customers rather than corporate share holders. A lot of small communities would love to set up their own publicly owned internet systems, but they are unable to do so because their state governments won't allow it. The second factor you didn't mention is the new satellite systems, such as Starlink. Older internet systems, such as Hughes Net, are known for high prices, low speeds, and long latency times, and are really considered last resort providers. Starlink is already providing an option for early adopters in beta test locations, and their service will only improve as the system is built out. Once the system is fully operational, and even before that in some areas, Starlink will be a game changer.
It's unbelievable that they didn't even mention it in the video... I was just waiting for them to say: "Ignore all this that we said because Starlink will fix all of that"
1 hour to download 1 gigabyte is absolutely criminal. States should lose federal funding for shitty trash internet and be coerced into providing faster infrastructure.
Wrong my mom had to change her internet to Verizon from the local internet forever area because of how bad internet connection was like the most we got Verizon it was
Satellite Internet Access is inferior to Municipal Broadband run by fiber optic cable. Maybe if the state governments actually spent their tax money on building infrastructure, we could literally have the best internet to provide for everyone in the country (Just look at Iowa, it has municipal broadband and is #1 in Internet Speed in the country). The reason many states don't have it yet is because Verizon and other ISP's would have to compete against a better product, so they lobby against it. NYC was in the route of getting Municipal Broadband until Verizon lobbied against it.
@@smith2354 Not a Musk fan by any means, but you're thinking of GEO satellites. Geostationary sats are a long way from the earth and result in significant latency. LEO Internet is (in theory) better because light travels faster through a vacuum rather than inside cabling. I'm not suggesting it will take over everything, but beta users have generally found the service to be excellent.
@@sachin2842 no it will be. if jio is a indian company then why would they provide internet in other countries. or open a company in other countries. literally makes no sense.
👍🏼 Thanks for keeping this (somewhat) visible as a public issue! So much time and money has been wasted, waiting for reasonably priced, reliable internet service in rural USA!
@@qzmo $250 HKD in Sai Kung for 90mbps here. Comparing city to country is inaccurate, and Sai Kung has very dense population compared to many city centres in the US
In Mexico some 15 years ago the federal government installed a country wide network of fiberglass cable that companies have access too, so private companies only built the local network, they can also use the electricity posts since there's only one electrical company and its owned by the federal government, I'm paying $30 for 20mb internet, land line and cable, and it's the basic package, I also pay $10 for unlimited internet on my phone from a different company, but this is thanks to that federal fiber network.
While it is worse in rural areas, this is how it is everywhere in USA. You must check what ISPs support a house before moving there because you probably don't have any choices and it probably won't ever change. Internet in USA sucks. Even in big cities, internet is not going to compare to other first world countries.
That part for Kenya is true. I remember visiting Laikipia, one of the wildlife conservancies and there is internet provided through the white spaces between TV frequencies . You get a decent 15Mbps with an antenna literally in the middle of nowhere surrounded by nothing but wildlife and with solar power.
In high school we had 1 up and 1 down. We had to pay $80 a month. It was very annoying because a street over (Albeit, a country road over) there was 50 up and 50 down for $60. They simply refused to service us because “copper costs too much”. I tried saying they’d literally have a monopoly if they serviced my area and they would just hang up on us lmaoo
It's actually a really involved process to install utility lines. You need permits from the municipality (maybe multiple depending on where you're digging), you need engineers to sign off on the design, you need contractors with the proper licenses to do the work, etc, etc. If everything goes well, you can finish an area the size of medium neighborhood in a couple years. Nothing ever goes well, though. Always hassles and roadblocks. Whether it's permitting issues or contractors hitting a water line or homeowners that refuse access into their backyards.. It's a really long involved process with a lot of steps. The local governments really need to step up, I think, and start providing a basic internet service just like water and power.
I live in rural Russia, getting fiber for 5 miles and connecting 3 houses on our street coated us 2000$. Half a gigabit upload/download costs 40$ a month. How is it so expensive in the us?
usually in the US the internet providers don't give you the option of installing fiber optic at your own expense. You literally just have to wait and hope that they bring it to you.
Because you banned Huawei smarty-pants, remember? Surprise-surprise, the old Huawei equipment you used in rural America was serving exactly those communities.
I had the same problem in the UK .The US not so much, it is the rural areas that have an issue. Visiting South Africa and Kenya is what can make a Briton embarrassed. Especially Kenya. There are ISPs there offering 30 to 60mbps for around 50 dollars a month in the cities and the rural areas have even networks that use the white spaces in between TV frequencies to provide 15 Mbps even in places that are literally crawling with wildlife. Meanwhile getting a decent connection in the outer suburbs of New York can be a hassle.
Great story! Germany is going through something similar in rural areas, where getting internet from neighbor countries is actually cheaper than paying for a German internet provider.
The specific example was far too mild, yet still valid. The more poignant yet broader alternative could be: "Today's small- and medium-sized businesses have spent the past decade nurtured by a heavily cloud-centric ecosystem for back-office operations -- such as learning management courses, outsourced accounting, Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) -- which all depend in varying degree on available bandwidth and path latencies. The ability to compete in a globalized marketplace is hampered when this connectivity degrades."
Has a person that has driven across USA through small rural towns to big cities, I tell you it's not only internet but also but cell phone service in some rural areas.
Don't forget, we've been paying these service provider billions every year to lay out broadband service. They then took these tax dollars, and renamed dial up as broadband and took all the profits
It boggles the mind how expensive Broadband is in the US. I pay like £21 a month for 60Mb per second and that's more than enough for my Twitch streaming, working from home or downloading games. I live in a semi rural area as well.
The future is community broadband and to remove any laws making community broadband illegal. Also remove any politicians that want to keep the existing monopolies in place.
I live in a small town in India, the biggest city is around 3 hours away. My Internet speed is around a 100Mbps download and 40Mbps upload. It costs about 10 - 11 USD per month.
Because this is a corporate run nation. Just look at the pathetic begging to Google to provide something essential. Like marginalized Californians begging for water while Dasani takes natural water from the state for profit. Its hilarious
Here in Finland, even wireless 4G works so great here and pretty much everywhere. I always get a big lauch when in American movies, people lost network coverage while in some city LOL The land of Internet, really.
For our 1000 Mb Fiber connection we currently pay 29 EUR here in Spain (around 35 USD). Our old provider, Telefonica, had installed an ADSL cable "a million years ago" and did not want to consider upgrading to Fiber. We paid them for 30Mb but only received 3Mb if lucky because "the cables were no longer in optimal condition". We were not happy with the service, fees and most of all, the speed! Our current provider, ADAMO, had a smart approach with what they call, Fiberhoods. Basically, anyone can open a fiberhood (for certain regions where Adamo would consider investments), get the interest of their neighbours, village or region. When there are enough people that have shown interest via the fiberhood, Adamo commits to connect your area with a new fiberoptic cable (100Mb) at a competitive fee. The fiberhood worked fantastic here! Very happy with the speed, price and service.
I know the struggle. Before I moved from South Florida to rural South East Georgia I made sure I was able get high speed coaxial internet and a secondary connection via dsl which was a bonus.
Starlink and AST Space Mobile will solve this issue and the traditional companies will lose out on a huge potential customer base simply because they can't be bothered. Sure it's expensive to put in new cables to rural areas but then you have guaranteed customers for life. Great long term income is worth the short term cost but the company executives don't want to invest money in something that will pay off after they retire.
It is not actually expensive to run fiber to every home and business in the USA. That cost myth is a lie by the Telcom companies that clueless writers swallow every time.
...because Murica is the greatest country that ever existed, and it don't do nuthin wrong. Meanwhile, there are islands in the ocean that get equal or better internet than some major Murican cities; in Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees that no one in Murica ever heard of, wired every inhabited building in the country with fiber-optic internet a number of years ago, with speeds that we can't even imagine.
I live in a pretty rural area so the only internet is wireless. The speed varies but it is around 60 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up. Costs less than 20$ a month. And I live in Finland so pretty expensive country in general.
I enjoy providing internet services to rural areas where big companies are not present. I believe everyone should have access to the internet regardless of where they live.
I think a lot of people misunderstand the difference between rural N.A and rural Asia or rural Europe. Rural Americans would consider rural Europe as urban. In rural Europe the store or train station is a couple miles away in rural America your closest neighbour is a couple miles away
I am in the rural most part of India and working as an IT Consultant from home in a remote location in dense Karnataka jungle, I recently got BSNL FTTH connection, I get 80 MBPs download and 60 MBPs upload speed for a monthly fees of 600 Rs. ( 9 USD) and I get 3300 GB data/month... :).. so no complaining !!!
At the rate India is building infrastructure, she will give Democracy its best chance at challenging China as the world's greatest economy a decade or two from now.
@@SemiPolymath Thank u Sir Check about company "Jio" They launched 4G service in 2016 then everything changed in India.. Google,FB, microsoft all invested Billions in Jio last year due to Jio success in short time.. 300 millions+ customer in 3 years
Man, I cannot wait for Starlink or some other provider to come into my choppy town and just speed things up. I usually have to upload files that are over 100 megabytes and it usually takes between 1-5 hrs. Now one hour isn't bad but I would like much better than 0.35down, 0.12 up with 600ms+ on average
@@metalvideos1961 I have starlink now but for me thats not the case. Although the upload speed fluctuates a bit, it is still consistent enough to upload a 100 megabyte file in under 10 minutes.
I live in South Africa and can assure you, that America, is not a third world country. Be thankful for what you have, like jobs and roads and education.
I live in Malaysia (next to Singapore) and we have 800Mbps WiFi right now. Currently considering whether to upgrade to 1Gbps for 200 per month. My phone gets 18Mbps Unlimited mobile data + Unlimited Hotspot + Unlimited Calls for only 50 bucks a month . When you convert the local currency to USD, that's about $60 dollars total for WiFi and mobile data.
The ARC money was utilized to provide wealthy neighborhoods that already had cable with fiber optic at a very low price. Fiber Optic was not extended to middle class and economically deprived areas. As a result, I have to take my exams for my university classes at McDonalds. As a disabled person, I am not able to work from my home. The money was misappropriated.
One reason is lack of competition. For example, at my apartment, I can only choose xfinity. It’s very expensive slow and limited. RIDICULOUS!!! Limited data for a cable Wi-Fi. It has no extra costs for these prioviders. They do this just because of monopoly. USA face your weakness! Learn from South Korea, China, Japan, any these very modern innovative countries.
5hr upload of 135mb file is my norm...unless my service drops off and I start all over. The internet is essential and I had 4 mobile carriers cover my area 10 years ago, now only one and price is jacked up. I travel 16 miles to towns local library to get reliable internet. Sad...
I live in rural Canada in a town of only 3000 people, there’s zero cell service here so my family has to rely on wifi calling for our phones. 50% of the time I’m litterally not able to call 911 if there’s an emergency
Where power lines and phone lines are, there should be cable or fiber internet. Simple as that. But until someone holds CEO's of providers accountable for lack of service, nothing will happen.
i am having Better internet connection than rural America as i live in a small town in Himalayas in india. Even india will have satellite internet around 2022.
And then there's me sitting in a small town in India watching this video in HD on my phone while there's a 4K version of Hobbs & Show running on my TV in the background and there's a whole season of The Mandalorion downloading on my laptop without any lag or buffering in either of the 3 things and also 3 more family members using the same network for their work simultaneously😂😂😂😂
You didn't dig into this near enough. The 1996 telecommunications act promised 25 mbps(bi-directional) though the whole US by 2006. We have give the current telecoms half a trillion dollars in tax breaks since then. There is sooo much dirt hear and you barely scratched the surface
The solution is straightforward. Create a Municipal internet service and force the large providers to compete against it. When the people do not set a standard of expectations, companies will ALWAYS race to the bottom.
name one government owned company that works
@Real Human Bean force? This ain’t china bruh . We have freedom here.
@Real Human Bean why should a nonessential private company be forced to do anything?
@@qudizzle1 The IRS?
@@Nswix Internet nonessential LOL
Who else was expecting Starlink to be mentioned?
Their only hope is starlink now.
I was thinking it too
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starlink is virtually the same price as some of those services with over 10-20x faster internet consistently
Yeah, it was odd that they left it out.
When a dude living on minimum wage in the woods of Estonia has a better connection speed than 95% of Americans.
@Donny less space to cover + more competitions amongst providers (or state owned ones.)
Isn't Estonia run by young people? In the United States we just held a contest between two old men.
@Donny mine's 12 a month 100 up 90 down, pretty sweet
@Donny Eastern Europe doesn't have Donald Trump
The US is roughly 216 times bigger than Estonia... the state of NY itself is 5x bigger than Estonia. It’s easy to provide coverage to a country that tiny.
Love how they couch the importance of this on rich people moving out into rural areas! Haha. I spend my teens in a rural area dealing with... 28kbps!!! Yeah, let's all pretend that Bloomberg cares about this issue. Thanks for saving us, rich people!!!!
In 2000 on Summit Road high in the Santa Cruz mtns a friend had 28k. That was funny 😸😂
You didn't have to go to school w/ 28k
@@testchannelpleaseignore2452 me?
If people stopped paying for cellular internet, then the isps would be forced to expand the cable network acress the country. Then people would be able to get better internet. Only problem is, people are too cheap to pay for it.
Don't worry, Internet will "Trickle Down" eventually....
🤣🤣
"Rural America Still Has Terrible Internet. Here's Why."
Me watching this with buffering and in 144p: "Pathetic!"
Virtue signalling
IKR mine too!!!!
Not our area thankfully. We live in a rural area and get gigabit fiber
The irony here is that these kinds of awakening videos are probably not viewable in rural areas due to the horrible internet there. :(
I live in Finland in middle of nowhere, 25km from nearest city. I pay about 10€/$ for 100mbps.
Try definition, Finland is in the middle of nowhere
Finland is 130k miles vs 3.8 million miles for the US. it's always easier to solve problems when your country is small..
@@alexm566 How about countries like India or Indonesia, both being roughly the same size if not bigger than the US, which have better rural internet connections?
Also, remember that the aforementioned countries are developing nations whereas the US is a first world superpower.
@@alexm566 Excuse if I'm being a little political, but.. if USA is not spending too much money on military and wars, probably they can solve that problem easily.
I mean.. USA is biggest economy in the world so I think large area is isn't so much of a problem.
@@AkunSayaYT I agree, but that doesn't mean the whole country is a lost cause like that previous comment. We invented the internet ffs with all of its hardware and software out of the military budget that you're so upset about.
The fact that the world wide web has been a thing for thirty years and the situation is still that bad in the world's largest economy is insane.
they rather spend the tax money on illegal wars meddling in other countries affairs or creating illegal coups. all that with your tax money. instead of fixing this problem or any other problem in america. america will never be fixed trust me.
If people stopped paying for cellular internet, then the isps would be forced to expand the cable network acress the country. Then people would be able to get better internet. Only problem is, people are too cheap to pay for it.
@@stocktrader9861 just "stop paying for cellular internet" when that is the ONLY internet that works for htem.. and then what.. wait for years for them to install cable all over rural America? ?LOLOL OK
@@stocktrader9861 "People are too poor to pay for it" .. there, I corrected you.
This report leaves out two things.
First, in many rural areas, especially in red states, municipalities are prohibited by state law from developing their own municipal internet systems. If the internet service in rural areas was treated as a public utility then it would be responsive to its customers rather than corporate share holders. A lot of small communities would love to set up their own publicly owned internet systems, but they are unable to do so because their state governments won't allow it.
The second factor you didn't mention is the new satellite systems, such as Starlink. Older internet systems, such as Hughes Net, are known for high prices, low speeds, and long latency times, and are really considered last resort providers. Starlink is already providing an option for early adopters in beta test locations, and their service will only improve as the system is built out. Once the system is fully operational, and even before that in some areas, Starlink will be a game changer.
Starlink can’t come soon enough
It's here. Have it already
Remember in 2000 when AT&T got several billion dollars to start digging for fiber, but never did? Pepperidge farm 'members.
So the country where the major and innovative technology companies reside does not even have sufficient internet for it's people?
Yes you understand - BTW less than 5 miles east of my house in the Midwest, all I can is 3g Verizon ( I get 4g LTE at home). Isn't the USA wonderful.
This is why they have the most innovative and advanced tech giants in the US. To profit from the many social problems.
Ha I can finally say my third world internet is better than someone's
agree
$9 for 100mbs is totally ok for me
@@GURken This maneuver will cost $ 30 in my country
@@GURken $140 for 1mbps :^)
30 US$ 7,5 mbps Argentina semirural area.
10 dollars 100bit Ukraine
One word: Starlink
It's unbelievable that they didn't even mention it in the video... I was just waiting for them to say: "Ignore all this that we said because Starlink will fix all of that"
Jio fibre ❤️
Scrolled down for this, and it was right at the top :)
Keep an eye out for when the company goes public. Any investors will literally be going to the moon. 🚀
@@fpbrazz yeah I like it that would really help a lot of people
1 hour to download 1 gigabyte is absolutely criminal. States should lose federal funding for shitty trash internet and be coerced into providing faster infrastructure.
When rural Indonesian have better internet than rural americans.
is dis a joke? if not I would totally go down to south (im currently in ph).
as long i have green ping at wild rift
@@aishvetorah5704 hahaha lol
That's because Indonesia has higher population density than US and therefore it's more profitable to cover the entire country over there ??
@@aishvetorah5704 I'm in rural area (though in Java island where population density is high) and I got around 8 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up.. ping ~50 ms
@@AkunSayaYT thanks for replying. How much you're paying for the internet?
Indian rural areas have 8 Mbps download and 5 Mbps upload speeds(minimum) at less than 7 dollars per month. thanks to Jio
It’s frustrating too for students in remote learning. It’s even harder to understand professor lessons
Wrong my mom had to change her internet to Verizon from the local internet forever area because of how bad internet connection was like the most we got Verizon it was
Big Daddy Elon and Hofeller coming in with Starlink... all of the big ISPs are shaking in their boots
Nope they don't care because most Americans can't use starlink.
@@jimpad5608 Why cant most use starlink ?
Satellite Internet Access is inferior to Municipal Broadband run by fiber optic cable. Maybe if the state governments actually spent their tax money on building infrastructure, we could literally have the best internet to provide for everyone in the country (Just look at Iowa, it has municipal broadband and is #1 in Internet Speed in the country). The reason many states don't have it yet is because Verizon and other ISP's would have to compete against a better product, so they lobby against it. NYC was in the route of getting Municipal Broadband until Verizon lobbied against it.
@@smith2354 Not a Musk fan by any means, but you're thinking of GEO satellites. Geostationary sats are a long way from the earth and result in significant latency. LEO Internet is (in theory) better because light travels faster through a vacuum rather than inside cabling.
I'm not suggesting it will take over everything, but beta users have generally found the service to be excellent.
Starlink will easily take care of all of these areas
🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼 😎👍🏼
this didn’t age well
@@midnightjbg167 why?
I'm watching this from rural South Africa. I don't have this problem... Mic drop
You have bigger problems there...like i dunno...one of the worst rape statistics in the world..
@@PresidentialWinner murder, rampant corruption and a slew of other things...
Watching from Nigeria, hoping COVID-19 would improve our internet
you guys need Jio fibre optical internet 👍🏻.
Jio is available only in india bro 😂
@@skydrout-journeyofasnail9137 "yet"
@@sachin2842 no it will be. if jio is a indian company then why would they provide internet in other countries. or open a company in other countries. literally makes no sense.
@@metalvideos1961 Vodafone is in England and usa as Verizon jio will also reach usa market soon.
Very, very funny. Meanwhile, in a small village in the Transylvanian mountains, they are just installing an optical fiber cable network.
Dracula is following the trends.
👍🏼 Thanks for keeping this (somewhat) visible as a public issue! So much time and money has been wasted, waiting for reasonably priced, reliable internet service in rural USA!
$30 for 2Gbps in central Tokyo here.
$12 for 1Gbps in HK
but I can take a wee out my front door and almost zero people around for ~75 USD for 3 down DSL
@@qzmo $250 HKD in Sai Kung for 90mbps here. Comparing city to country is inaccurate, and Sai Kung has very dense population compared to many city centres in the US
In Mexico some 15 years ago the federal government installed a country wide network of fiberglass cable that companies have access too, so private companies only built the local network, they can also use the electricity posts since there's only one electrical company and its owned by the federal government, I'm paying $30 for 20mb internet, land line and cable, and it's the basic package, I also pay $10 for unlimited internet on my phone from a different company, but this is thanks to that federal fiber network.
In the US its all about share holders and profits. They do not worry about the population
Why is the internet so expensive in the most advanced country?
While it is worse in rural areas, this is how it is everywhere in USA. You must check what ISPs support a house before moving there because you probably don't have any choices and it probably won't ever change. Internet in USA sucks. Even in big cities, internet is not going to compare to other first world countries.
The greatest “superpower” has the largest population of below average internet speeds available to people who don’t live in populated cities
That part for Kenya is true.
I remember visiting Laikipia, one of the wildlife conservancies and there is internet provided through the white spaces between TV frequencies . You get a decent 15Mbps with an antenna literally in the middle of nowhere surrounded by nothing but wildlife and with solar power.
Watching this video from rural Kenya.
In high school we had 1 up and 1 down. We had to pay $80 a month. It was very annoying because a street over (Albeit, a country road over) there was 50 up and 50 down for $60. They simply refused to service us because “copper costs too much”. I tried saying they’d literally have a monopoly if they serviced my area and they would just hang up on us lmaoo
It's actually a really involved process to install utility lines. You need permits from the municipality (maybe multiple depending on where you're digging), you need engineers to sign off on the design, you need contractors with the proper licenses to do the work, etc, etc. If everything goes well, you can finish an area the size of medium neighborhood in a couple years. Nothing ever goes well, though. Always hassles and roadblocks. Whether it's permitting issues or contractors hitting a water line or homeowners that refuse access into their backyards..
It's a really long involved process with a lot of steps. The local governments really need to step up, I think, and start providing a basic internet service just like water and power.
I live in rural Russia, getting fiber for 5 miles and connecting 3 houses on our street coated us 2000$. Half a gigabit upload/download costs 40$ a month. How is it so expensive in the us?
usually in the US the internet providers don't give you the option of installing fiber optic at your own expense. You literally just have to wait and hope that they bring it to you.
Us government is more interested in telecom profits than citizens needs.
And they say Freedom makes their country great!.......HA!......it's fast internet! FAST INTERNET MAKES A COUNTRY GREAT !!!
Because you banned Huawei smarty-pants, remember? Surprise-surprise, the old Huawei equipment you used in rural America was serving exactly those communities.
spy..spys..spy..
In the Philippines, even cities have bad Internet not to mention expensive.
I had the same problem in the UK .The US not so much, it is the rural areas that have an issue.
Visiting South Africa and Kenya is what can make a Briton embarrassed.
Especially Kenya. There are ISPs there offering 30 to 60mbps for around 50 dollars a month in the cities and the rural areas have even networks that use the white spaces in between TV frequencies to provide 15 Mbps even in places that are literally crawling with wildlife. Meanwhile getting a decent connection in the outer suburbs of New York can be a hassle.
U.S is light years behind with internet and infrastructure
... and public education and healthcare.
Wait until you see Australia....
Great story! Germany is going through something similar in rural areas, where getting internet from neighbor countries is actually cheaper than paying for a German internet provider.
Government taxes and regulations is the problem
Tell me about bad Internet in Rural Alaska. Worst of the worst I can tell
This is so funny because in Thailand even in the far away provinces its normal to have 100-200MBPS DOWN, and 10-100MBPS UP.
Mbps*
I was expecting to hear about 5G and starlink wireless internet services.
Only low band 5g (low bandwidth) works in rural areas. High band 5g has a range of less than a mile.
@@jimpad5608 and significant chunks of this country don’t even have 3g let alone 4G or 5G.
9:00 that closing argument makes absolutely no sense: "quickly upload you payroll"... really? I don't think thats an issue.
The specific example was far too mild, yet still valid. The more poignant yet broader alternative could be: "Today's small- and medium-sized businesses have spent the past decade nurtured by a heavily cloud-centric ecosystem for back-office operations -- such as learning management courses, outsourced accounting, Anything-as-a-Service (XaaS) -- which all depend in varying degree on available bandwidth and path latencies. The ability to compete in a globalized marketplace is hampered when this connectivity degrades."
Has a person that has driven across USA through small rural towns to big cities, I tell you it's not only internet but also but cell phone service in some rural areas.
Don't forget, we've been paying these service provider billions every year to lay out broadband service.
They then took these tax dollars, and renamed dial up as broadband and took all the profits
ya mean DSL isn't broadband? :shocked:
Not gonna talk about STARLINK in this vid??
Starlink has nothing to do with the issue.
@@akyhne It's actually the solution to this problem.
@@maximusscott9927 it's one of the solutions. But the video is about the "why", not about "how" to fix it.
@@akyhne I don't think you watched the entire video.
@@maximusscott9927 I did. And I'm referring to the title of the video. It doesn't call for the "how" to be answered.
Elon Musk is literally launching rockets to solve this issue
This issue could be solved easily with the breaking up the big tele firms and having internet be declared a utility like in most countries
@@ShidaiTaino of course! But if the problem is solved there is no reason for guys like Musk to send rockets into space and charge people for it.
@@dickiewongtk well, if I was to have anything to say about it satellite Internet would die out in favor of fiber in rural America
It boggles the mind how expensive Broadband is in the US. I pay like £21 a month for 60Mb per second and that's more than enough for my Twitch streaming, working from home or downloading games. I live in a semi rural area as well.
This is why Elon Musk started Starlink
The future is community broadband and to remove any laws making community broadband illegal. Also remove any politicians that want to keep the existing monopolies in place.
Wish it was that simple, but it's not for most small towns and counties (sadly).... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gus473 Yes it will be a uphill battle and large upfront investment but then the towns can prosper.
@@MBisFrenchy actually it not hard and the upfront cost is miniscule.
You just wanted fiber internet, we just wanted to be able to afford to even rent a room in our rural town. We're not the same.
Maybe that’s why so many of them are uninformed
I live in a small town in India, the biggest city is around 3 hours away. My Internet speed is around a 100Mbps download and 40Mbps upload. It costs about 10 - 11 USD per month.
Stupid monopolies in America....
Our internet companies have insanity money. They can lay plenty of fiber.
Wish that was the case my ISP literally is bankrupt with a market cap of $42 million (Frontier)
@@Nswix that is because of gross mismanagement and probable theft.
I'm pretty certain my tax dollars when to solving this problem about 20 years ago. So why is it still a problem?
Because this is a corporate run nation. Just look at the pathetic begging to Google to provide something essential. Like marginalized Californians begging for water while Dasani takes natural water from the state for profit. Its hilarious
Fcc laziness and congressional indifference
Here in Finland, even wireless 4G works so great here and pretty much everywhere.
I always get a big lauch when in American movies, people lost network coverage while in some city LOL
The land of Internet, really.
For our 1000 Mb Fiber connection we currently pay 29 EUR here in Spain (around 35 USD).
Our old provider, Telefonica, had installed an ADSL cable "a million years ago" and did not want to consider upgrading to Fiber. We paid them for 30Mb but only received 3Mb if lucky because "the cables were no longer in optimal condition". We were not happy with the service, fees and most of all, the speed!
Our current provider, ADAMO, had a smart approach with what they call, Fiberhoods. Basically, anyone can open a fiberhood (for certain regions where Adamo would consider investments), get the interest of their neighbours, village or region. When there are enough people that have shown interest via the fiberhood, Adamo commits to connect your area with a new fiberoptic cable (100Mb) at a competitive fee. The fiberhood worked fantastic here! Very happy with the speed, price and service.
I feel sorry for all the people that have to play in Central American servers with a 50-100 ping 😂😂😂
Dont worry starlink will solve it soon
👍🏼 Hope so! Can't wait! 😎
I know the struggle. Before I moved from South Florida to rural South East Georgia I made sure I was able get high speed coaxial internet and a secondary connection via dsl which was a bonus.
Starlink and AST Space Mobile will solve this issue and the traditional companies will lose out on a huge potential customer base simply because they can't be bothered. Sure it's expensive to put in new cables to rural areas but then you have guaranteed customers for life. Great long term income is worth the short term cost but the company executives don't want to invest money in something that will pay off after they retire.
It is not actually expensive to run fiber to every home and business in the USA. That cost myth is a lie by the Telcom companies that clueless writers swallow every time.
...because Murica is the greatest country that ever existed, and it don't do nuthin wrong. Meanwhile, there are islands in the ocean that get equal or better internet than some major Murican cities; in Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees that no one in Murica ever heard of, wired every inhabited building in the country with fiber-optic internet a number of years ago, with speeds that we can't even imagine.
I live in a pretty rural area so the only internet is wireless. The speed varies but it is around 60 Mbps down and 40 Mbps up. Costs less than 20$ a month. And I live in Finland so pretty expensive country in general.
I wouldn’t let my mom move anywhere unless I at least had cable internet. 😂😂😂
I enjoy providing internet services to rural areas where big companies are not present. I believe everyone should have access to the internet regardless of where they live.
I think a lot of people misunderstand the difference between rural N.A and rural Asia or rural Europe. Rural Americans would consider rural Europe as urban. In rural Europe the store or train station is a couple miles away in rural America your closest neighbour is a couple miles away
*_FINALLY_* , somebody has asked the question!
I am in the rural most part of India and working as an IT Consultant from home in a remote location in dense Karnataka jungle, I recently got BSNL FTTH connection, I get 80 MBPs download and 60 MBPs upload speed for a monthly fees of 600 Rs. ( 9 USD) and I get 3300 GB data/month... :).. so no complaining !!!
Watching on 200mbps connection from rural India
At the rate India is building infrastructure, she will give Democracy its best chance at challenging China as the world's greatest economy a decade or two from now.
@@SemiPolymath
Thank u Sir
Check about company "Jio"
They launched 4G service in 2016 then everything changed in India..
Google,FB, microsoft all invested Billions in Jio last year due to Jio success in short time..
300 millions+ customer in 3 years
Thank you for highlighting this issue
How are you doing subzero
Nice to meet you .
@@tylerroger5680 have crappy internet just like the people described in the video. From 0.2 - 1.5 download and 0.2 - 0.5 upload
@@tylerroger5680 how about you?
@@qpSubZeroqp I'm great. Sorry for that
Man, I cannot wait for Starlink or some other provider to come into my choppy town and just speed things up.
I usually have to upload files that are over 100 megabytes and it usually takes between 1-5 hrs. Now one hour isn't bad but I would like much better than 0.35down, 0.12 up with 600ms+ on average
starlink is only 30Mbps download speed with still low upload speed. so 100MB files will still take along time to upload.
Zito media with Quad9 DNS is great.
@@metalvideos1961 I have starlink now but for me thats not the case. Although the upload speed fluctuates a bit, it is still consistent enough to upload a 100 megabyte file in under 10 minutes.
I feel your pain... So close yet so far.
in europe i pay 5 euro a month for 100 mbps unlimited, it would only be 1 euro extra to upgrade to 1 gbps but they dont offer it in my street dang it
you communist!
Which country in Europe? That's a great deal!
@@Greeklish21 lithuania
Developing countries: "first time?"
Umm ,na I have cheap and fast fiber optic connection at home , and I barely pay a 100 dollars for it annually 😂
When you spend too much on lobbying and none on the development. The US is a third world country.
I live in South Africa and can assure you, that America, is not a third world country. Be thankful for what you have, like jobs and roads and education.
@@Nswix South Africa is a 5th world country
@@litojonny wasn't always this way.
I live in Malaysia (next to Singapore) and we have 800Mbps WiFi right now. Currently considering whether to upgrade to 1Gbps for 200 per month. My phone gets 18Mbps Unlimited mobile data + Unlimited Hotspot + Unlimited Calls for only 50 bucks a month . When you convert the local currency to USD, that's about $60 dollars total for WiFi and mobile data.
100mb fiber to my house. Middle of forrest 🥰
Oh, and 40 euros a month
This video is pure comedy on so many levels 🤣🤠🇺🇸
I like Bloomberg Quicktake
The ARC money was utilized to provide wealthy neighborhoods that already had cable with fiber optic at a very low price. Fiber Optic was not extended to middle class and economically deprived areas. As a result, I have to take my exams for my university classes at McDonalds. As a disabled person, I am not able to work from my home. The money was misappropriated.
Rural South Africa has fibre. World class speed
Crazy that we've had internet for over 2 decades and internet is still this bad..
One reason is lack of competition. For example, at my apartment, I can only choose xfinity. It’s very expensive slow and limited. RIDICULOUS!!! Limited data for a cable Wi-Fi. It has no extra costs for these prioviders. They do this just because of monopoly. USA face your weakness! Learn from South Korea, China, Japan, any these very modern innovative countries.
5hr upload of 135mb file is my norm...unless my service drops off and I start all over. The internet is essential and I had 4 mobile carriers cover my area 10 years ago, now only one and price is jacked up. I travel 16 miles to towns local library to get reliable internet. Sad...
Where do u love buddy..
I download 1 GB file in few minutes here in Village of India
That capitalism at it worst, small population equal low to no profit therefore no investments.
5:05 dial-up in 2020. wow. what is this?
I live in rural Canada in a town of only 3000 people, there’s zero cell service here so my family has to rely on wifi calling for our phones. 50% of the time I’m litterally not able to call 911 if there’s an emergency
3 words
96 communications act
You guys have payed for your rural internet 25 years ago with billions in tax money
As a Kenyan, I agree with you that our fiber optic cable internet speed is insanely fast especially here in Nairobi.
It’s to keep your minds off of how mind bogglingly poor you all are
@@ablunt4me420 seems like you yourself is so poor in brainpower
Starlink for the win!
Where power lines and phone lines are, there should be cable or fiber internet. Simple as that. But until someone holds CEO's of providers accountable for lack of service, nothing will happen.
i am having Better internet connection than rural America as i live in a small town in Himalayas in india. Even india will have satellite internet around 2022.
^Values in action.
Honestly feel bad 😂 , because I have a 50mbps up and down unlimited data and I pay barely a 100 dollars a year 😂
same
Lucky :)
And then there's me sitting in a small town in India watching this video in HD on my phone while there's a 4K version of Hobbs & Show running on my TV in the background and there's a whole season of The Mandalorion downloading on my laptop without any lag or buffering in either of the 3 things and also 3 more family members using the same network for their work simultaneously😂😂😂😂
I often complain about how costly the broadband is in India but not anymore for 55 usd we get 1gbps connection
We pay top dollar for awful quality.
Yup! It's crazy hearing from friends in non-rural areas paying the same prices I am and having better speeds.
@@BackAlleyKnifeFighter that's awful.
ROI to bring internet to rural areas is terrible.
A cooperative solution would solve these issues easily.
You didn't dig into this near enough. The 1996 telecommunications act promised 25 mbps(bi-directional) though the whole US by 2006. We have give the current telecoms half a trillion dollars in tax breaks since then. There is sooo much dirt hear and you barely scratched the surface