A moot point. France's infrastructure is way ahead of Australia's in terms of fiber and cabling in the ground. They also embraced wireless in their rural areas many many years ago because they figured out they can't drop cable anywhere because of wait for it, cost. France Telecom saw the wireless opportunity before most and developed their own technology which they have sold into many African countries for instance.
It also helps that they have a slightly bigger population and more people in urban environments than we have people full stop. There it is again. That dreaded economies of scale thing. Little fucker just won't go away no matter how you shake it. Put the fiber where you can justify its cost and that happens to be a lot of places in France and the rest of the Euro zone.
Comparing us to France or any other European country is either naive, ill informed, stupid or all of the above.
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