why is the internet speed different by country?
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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.
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