said by GhostDoggy 
:But could Japan, South Korea, and those European countries have done the same thing again if a) they were not subsidized by their governments in some part, and b) have the same geography as the United States.
Its easy to have high market penetration when the majority of your peoples are in small, tight urbanized areas. I wonder how it would look if the federal government offered up a 20% subsidy to each and every private broadband company, and then only looked at the major cities when determining market penetration.
Doesn't the U.S. market have its share of subsidies? While there isn't specific government monies being thrown at telcoms, tax breaks and deals on multiple levels count for something.
