You're as hopelessly stuck in your position as I am in mine, and I don't care to go 'round in the same circle again, so I'm not getting into the point-by-point response I could post.

But how about directing your copious research skills towards finding out (as I've been unable to do) what percentage of the world has "resist(ed) entering the broadband era" simply because it just plain does not have access to broadband, and, further, what percentage of the world has broadband but is hobbled by capped bandwidth?

(Your stylistic aside has made its point, but "my combination of all three" is, from my point of view, an expression of frustration...exasperation.)

The new Great Equalizer is the SEND button.

In Memory of Harv: Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. ~Voltaire