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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
However, it is the cable companies (mostly, fiber optic companies are coming along more and more quickly) that are under the hook for building the infrastructure to be able to support that. Netflix pays nothing for its taxing of the current infrastructure - which produces pressure on the cable companies to update said infrastructure.
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This isn't true. Taxpayers have given enormous grants and subsidies to build the infrastructure. We handed hundreds of billions over in the 90's to build this out and they pocketed most of it. You'll see almost daily local and state governments handing out money to build out new infrastructure for these companies.
I just don't know how people can be fine with our current internet situation. We get our ass kicked by most 1st world countries. We have slower internet speeds than countries like Estonia. South Korea and Japan make a mockery of us. Why are we cool with not only that but letting it get worse?