system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: How is Google Fiber able to get such high speeds and why is this not standard practice?
gpt
American infrastructure is hopelessly outdated,  and the companies that are in charge of maintaining it have no incentive to upgrade since there is no other options fpr consumers. In other countries,  the government is in charge of the communications infrastructure, so things get upgraded continuously.