This might be off-topic but the numbers being stated are quite shocking. I understand the geographic contributions that make the disparity possible but still, when you reflect on the fact that they are being attributed to the supposed richest nation on earth you do ask why that is the case.
If city households have the fastest available internet because of fibre optics then surely rural communities should have been getting mobile 4g/5g connections from dongles or hotspots (or even Starlink at government subsidised reduced costs).
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Back in 2003 many people didn't even have ADSL, they were stuck in dial-up (even in the US). Therefore it was not a good time to release Bitcoin (even if it was ready).
A few years ago, some data showed that as many as 265 000 households in the US used dial-up internet, and although that number is certainly lower today, some still have super slow internet. I think many live in the illusion that the entire US looks like downtown New York or some big city, when in fact there are parts of the country where everything looks like time stopped 50 or more years ago.
I don't believe that Satoshi was waiting for some internet revolution to happen to let the genie out of the bottle - it just happened at the moment when everything was ready. In addition, even today around 35-40% of people in the world do not have access to the Internet, and 15 years ago this percentage was significantly higher.