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Originally Posted by danielf
Why is the top 10 (or thirty even) so dominated by Canadian ISP's?
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Competition.
Companies like to extract as much money as they can from you whilst at the same time spending as little as possible. If all the ISPs in a country have fairly similar speed offerings at fairly similar pricings there is no incentive to provide anything significantly faster. If one of them suddenly provided a significantly faster service at little, if any, increase in cost then all the others would suddenly be able to do so too.
In Britain xDSL is holding advancement back. I am sure that the cablecos could provide significantly faster connections if they were pushed to do so, but why should they go to the expense of doing this if their only competition, xDSL, can't match them.