With what has been said - a few pennies to throw in.
Conspiracy theories like most other things - can have some amount of truth to them mixed in. I made reference in a WhatsApp group to games and movies. This was in response to people posting a plethora of conspiracy things.
Command and Conquer has the mirage tank. Something which is real. Whichever came first, one was inspired by the other. Back To The Future had hoverboards and how companies are doing their best to make them. Star Trek gave lots of insight into tech we'd like to see - and we're seeing a lot of it developed now. Some even better than originally designed in the shows/cartoons/anime/games.
Technology is driven by imagination. When we stop dreaming we stop creating.
As for the ISPs here. I had to upload 18.2GB of data for a friend. This data was placed on a VPS overseas to make it easier for him to access. Took me almost 2 weeks to do the upload. I then decided to place said files in my more permanent cloud storage for safekeeping. Took less than a day to be done. I don't think it took 6 hours actually. The point is it took a better connection less than 1 day to do what took me almost 2 weeks. If we had proper internet here then lots of things would be easier and the user experience would be better. Persons locally that stream and game online would have MUCH better competition. From a gamer perspective, I remember when I was hardcore into it and killing people with much lower ping. There's two sides to that. A better connection smooths things out - if you are a good player and a laggy player is there, things can go in either direction. Usually it's in the favor of the higher ping player, but on the flip side (in an FPS for example) you can shoot someone and on your side you see blood splatter and whatnot - but the other player takes no damage whatsoever. Even with the struggles I was the #5 Jamaican in Counter-Strike: Source overall online for some time. We could actually participate in E-Sports versus just watching. We have the talent here, but the available ISPs make it hard.
If @brandysull comes in we could get more details on the available technologies and what they are actually capable of, but we already know the MO for the companies. Give a little trickle of what it can be - charge premium. What we pay for the basic package at ISPs in Jamaica is less than what others pay overseas, however the cost of our middle packages are higher than what's charged overseas and we're not getting it. One person I spoke with had a 500Mb connection with either 100Mb/200Mb upload and was paying USD$70. That's about our middle packages here - and we not getting anywhere NEAR that.
Anyways. Enough rambling. Eventually I'd like to see some advancements instead of the repeated holding back that we're accustomed to. Now when they finally free things up a bit everyone going rejoice. It's a psychological game.
As for the current garbage with COVID-19. There go my beach plans...
Knowing the solution doesn't mean knowing the method. Yet answering correctly and regurgitation are considered "learning" and "knowledge".