It's an issue of the US having invested early in infrastructure, and then needing to invest billions of $$ to upgrade to new systems...when the same companies that would need to do the upgrading are losing money or barely breaking even. The demonstrated ability to pay and the market price aren't there to justify the ROI.

My read: We'll upgrade when forced.

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