[Richard Crowley]

Jason wrote:
The USA is far behind many 1st-world countries in terms of
broadband availability and, especially, performance/$. And
dropping...

Most of those countries are able to concentrate the entire
focus of their national resources on an area around the size
of just one of the 50 US states. The medium size Oregon
county I live in is larger than some of those countries.

Remember also the other effect: The kid on the block who
gets the toys first ends up with the oldest toys.