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Cable is certainly cheaper in the Netherlands, but not fiber.

In Utrecht, Online.nl is ~$54 for 50mbps fiber.

Fiber.nl is ~$44 euro for 50mbps fiber.

Per https://www.internetten.nl and online.nl

$70 for 1gbps rather beats that by a drastic margin. Many cities in the US are seeing gigabit consumer fiber deployments at that price range.



> $70 for 1gbps rather beats that by a drastic margin.

You need to factor in the marginal utility of added bandwidth. Few people can meaningfully utilise 20-50mbps (a full HD stream is <10mbps), much less 1gbps, so you're looking at paying $20-30 for, essentially, nothing.

For the record, I count myself in the group of people who can't utilise such a connection, although I'm squarely in the group of people who'd pay for the faster connection in a heartbeat regardless.




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