content: You don't get it.  Technically speaking, offering 25 is much more difficult than 10. This is due to the nature of the technology available for residential wired internet.  So if you incentivize them to meet the "Broadband goal" you also have to make it possible to succeed.  A technically literate person defined it as 10mb, and a fucking clueless idiot politician defined it as 25mb. You will end up with more people with good internet this way.  The difference between 10 and 25 is not nearly as significant as the difference between 1 and 10. You can't re-legislate the 1990's. The US is clearly setting a policy of focusing on higher bandwidth mobile for the 10gb speeds of the future.  This is not a bad decision for a large, largely low-density country.  Higher-speed wired infrastructure like you describe is good for dense cities and in the cities in the USA you can get those speeds. I get 300mb in NYC for a normal price, for example.