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That’s a chicken and egg situation. The costs are fixed because they have no incentive to build more infrastructure.

If you live in a place with only one or two ISPs and they only charge a flat rate per month for capped usage, you never get more bandwidth. The system is working as designed.




The real fix is to take down some barriers to entry for new ISPs ;)




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