Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?

Not a lot of Kenyan porn hogging all the bandwidth? Need Kenyan version of TD to confirm.

Population of people who have mobile devices with internet?

Idk...just saying not as many fighting for bandwidth.

Key word is average. The US is a pretty big place. Im sure this statistic factors in all the dead zones. It probably also averages it out between all carriers.

Bc too many dead millionaires fortunes have gone unclaimed and the government of Kenya had no other option than to seize the monies and use them wisely.

Lack of true competition here. The big providers have their own territories and it's nigh impossible to expand into an area that already has service providers.

Since AT&T ran the phone lines here, any competing company must lease those phone lines from AT&T. Same with cable in the ground. Wireless has a finite number of channels to broadcast on as well, similar to radio.

There's the reason phone, internet, cable, and radio stations all pretty much suck arse no matter where you go.

Government regulations have allocated all of the best and fastest spectrum to network antenna television and they refuse to stop broadcasting that shite and use the available spectrum for internet.

Wireless spectrum is not infinite.

The government has specifically carved out the spectrum. Old archaic laws about radio and antenna television clog the spectrum. Those are given the absolute gold standard spectrum. They have the most and the best.

Then you have telecommunications which is divided up among the carriers then you have public shite like Bluetooth. There's a reason Bluetooth is absolutely dog shite and your wireless router can barely reach the front of your house.

But even phone, you know how phones don't work in elevators? Well they would if the government would free up some of that gold spectrum for cellphone signals and wireless internet.

But they won't, because if they allowed that spectrum to be used for high-speed wireless internet it may actually foster competition among ISPs.

Imagine if someone could buy the old TV station that broadcasts at flawless streaming HD all over your city, and convert it to internet. It would rival ISPs and their lobbyists will not allow that to happen.

It's a other example of the government refusing to allow competition and old laws being impossible to to change. It's infuriating.

As a country we have some of the shittiest infastructure and we're talking behind technology wise because our lobbyist controlled DC cock sucking congress cannot see the forest for the trees and cannot get past next week's quarterly profit reports.

Thanks, Obama.

So it's not just a 1% difference?

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Why is America's Mobile internet slower then Kenya's?

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They're faster in anything long distance.

Short answer: Our communications infrastructure is still based largely on a wired model (although it is changing somewhat).

To be fair, we have a shite ton of bandwidth through wired networks. There was never the wired infrastructure for cable and telephone service in the third world, so those countries put a lot more effort into wireless networks.

Even in Eastern/Southern Europe, prior to cell phones, most ordinary people didn't have phone lines run to their houses. So, once everyone and their brother got Nokia phones in the 1990s, they ran with it.