why is the internet speed different by country?
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So the internet isn’t really…a thing that just exists. It’s the idea of hooking computers up to each other so they can talk.
So the better all those computers are hooked up, the faster they can talk to each other. That’s all a bunch of infrastructure that is really not cheap to build and set up. For example, the US tends to spend 10s of billions of dollars each year developing this infrastructure.
Certain countries have done a better or worse job on this. The two biggest factors for that are how rich the country is (richer countries can afford to do more) and how dense the country is (dense countries mean you simply need fewer wires and towers and what not).
Imagine how the internet is delivered to your house or phone.
First there’s connections from all the overseas sources of the internet’s information’s. Someone needs to pay to get access to those connections. They’re not free.
Next, someone needs to get those connections connected to stuff that’s close enough to your home or your moving-around phone to connect to it. That’s wires, and underground infrastructure, or stable radio connections, or whatever. For homes, it’s wires. For phones, it’s tall, expensive towers.
Now.
How much money does your country and its companies have to pay for all of that? And for certain countries, how important is it to provide that compared to all the other problems that your countries have to solve for their citizens? Where does their limited money go?
Some countries spend on their youth, the ones that use the most internet. Others… not so much. Because the politicians they elect have different thought processes about how business that provides “essential services” work, or how government works… or how many actual voters will elect them.
That’s why. Everyone has their motivations. Allowing you to stream Disney+ in UHD regardless of where you go in their borders… isn’t the same ranking on all those motivation lists.
And that includes the ones that decide whether to spend money on providing good-quality internet to everyone.
It boils down to infrastructure. Most of the internet in the world is backboned by fiber optic cables, but the size of the pipelines (the number of cables capable of carrying information) vary from place to place. Even in developed countries, consumer fiber optic is still in it’s infancy around the countries and internet speed can very from city to city and region to region as a result.
Internet speeds vary by country due to a combination of factors such as infrastructure development, technological capabilities, and government regulations
Each country has its own unique set of circumstances that influence the speed and quality of internet connections available to its citizens.
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