Over the past couple years, internet access has been becoming less reliable, even in the developed world
Where did you get this from, I'm curious to know more. In my country(Dracula's country), it looks like internet reliability improves more and more, not less.
One example was last week, half of Canada's internet, banking, and phone service was unavailable for an entire day, and not working properly for another 2 days. Our grid is old and patched together from various obsolete technologies. Supposedly it is also under constant attack from "Russian hackers" but that probably really means "from within".
For now I can consider myself lucky, here we have fast and cheap internet, the networks are new enough and they keep upgrading them all the time from cable to fiber, also the 4G works fast. If something happens for my internet to go down is usually a small local problem and it doesn't last very long.
This is my morning speed for which I pay $10 US a month!
The contract states that I should get UP TO 600Mbps but even 500 is not that far off.
Wow that is stellar!
I pay 5 times what you pay for 1/10th the speed. How is that for "most advanced country". Total BS.
This is one of the few things working properly in this country, the internet..
Romania ranked 4th in the world last year: