• Because they can. Most people’s typical usage isn’t impacted by low uplink bandwidth. Very few people are uploading 4K content or live streaming or hosting a high traffic webserver from their garage. Less bandwidth means less expense, thus more profit. Capitalism, baby.

    • People’s typical usage may change as a result of more bandwidth being available, though. Peer-to-peer videoconferencing, for instance, is almost impossible with the upstream bandwidth available now.

      We also need to do away with NAT…