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@Wesley_Clark

The Myth of Population Density and the High Cost of Broadband

The myth of low population density - The New York Times

The population density argument is a red herring, many people in the US live in large metro areas. It costs something like $500 per home to set up the infrastructure to allow fiber optics, plus another $500 or so to wire up each house.

I believe those figures are from Kansas city, in a place like NYC where there are a lot of apartment buildings and more density the costs could (but may not) be lower.

Google built fiber optics to ‘shame’ the major providers into providing better service. Apparently shame is not a good motivator.

Major cities in the US have far LOWER population densities than many major cities in other countries.
The following list gives people per square kilometer, for some reason:

Seoul/Incheon
16,700

Taipei
15,200

Madrid
5,200

London
5,100

Tel Aviv
5,050

By contrast, Los Angeles–the most densely-populated American city–ranks 90th in the world at 2,750. New York is 2,050. Dallas/Ft. Worth & Houston, with about 8 million residents between them, are 1,150.

City Mayors: Largest cities in the world by population density (1 to 125)

Seoul is 6 times more densely-populated than LA.

In other words, your cavalier dismissal of population density is wildly incorrect.