>>17283625I can actually answer that question. In the heavily developed areas in the USA, you have modernized high speed copper and fiber optic lines. In the non developed areas and more rural places, you have the same old school copper telcom lines that have existed since the early 1900's being used for data transfer. Now this is not universal. There are some small and rural towns with incredible internet services and great data infrastructure, and there are some cities where the data infrastructure and internet service is absolute trash... really it comes down to what the local, county and state governments have prioritized for development purposes. Because we have so many layers of bureaucracy in this country, nothing is really standardized. If the federal government says it's "investing 100 billion in infrastructure spending" or whatever, what that means is a big pot of money goes up for grabs and a bunch of state, county and local governments can try and snag a piece of it by presenting their proposals for how to spend it. Basically, we have too many layers of government for everything to be completely standard. Some areas have really dumb boomer mayors, councilmen or whatever who think the internet is a fad. Some areas have government officials too fucking stupid to capitalize on the infrastructure investment. It's all so layered and full of retards in charge on average that the USA will always be very different wherever you go. That's just on the government side. Don't even get me started on the service provider side. We have several major companies that run telcom/data service all over the USA, and they vary wildly in their quality control, approach, and business model. These companies are usually heavily subsidized by state and local governments, as the above implies. It's all a mess. Hence how wildly different internet speed is from area to area here. It also cannot be understated that this is a very big place- we have a lot of ground to cover.
