1. Many regional providers exist all over the country that provide similar services in fairly remote towns.<p>2. Symbiote addressed this quite well. They&#x27;re really not that close to the big exchanges.<p>3. That&#x27;s not a technical problem though, and could be changed if there was a will to. Which is exactly what this discussion is about—in Scandinavia (in fact, most of Europe), there is competition and the broadband situation is fairly good.<p>Heck, I pay less than $50&#x2F;month for 200&#x2F;10 MBit&#x2F;s and cable TV in Germany. There&#x27;s no technical reason this wouldn&#x27;t work in metropolitan areas in the US.