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I live in Europe, where there is a lot more regulation on Telecom Companies. My house is in a small village in the woods (45min away from the next Autobahn!) and yet I can get 50Mbps down and 10Mbps up for 50€.

Regulation sets the market incentives. Having no regulation is just the choice to set the incentives to benefit those that control the natural monopoly.



To be fair, you can consider yourself lucky — many people in rural areas can only get 384 kbit/s DSL.




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