Comparing Hong Kong to the US is disingenuous because of the capital costs required to wire up each area are orders of magnitude different.<p>If I recall correctly, the 90s was full of companies laying down huge swaths of optic fiber in the US, waiting for consumers to pay hundreds of dollars a month for ultra-high-speed Internet. Most of them went bankrupt before people started clamoring for high speed Internet.<p>Even now, people still want to keep paying $40 a month, but at the same time want telcos to completely upgrade all the infra to support gigabit speeds.<p>In Canada, HSI access doesn't generally come to rural communities with subsidization from the government.