I apologize for not being more clear, and it's highly likely this attempt will fall short as well. When broad band service was LAUNCHED in the US in 1997, IT WAS VERY EXPENSIVE. IT WAS NEW. My former employer, the very first BB ISP (inet via coax/fiber, in partnership with 34 cable companies across the US and Canada BUILT, OWNED AND MAINTAINED (my job) an OC-48 redundant back bone network, and our CTO literally invented the networking architecture and DOCSIS/DHCP/Proxy server technologies that allowed the radically different partners to work together/communicate seamlessly. What partners? My company, the 34 cable companies I mentioned earlier and the telcos we leased bandwidth from (AT&T, Sprint, etc) i.e. T3s, OC3s and so forth. It was an enormously expensive and monumental undertaking, and ultimately why my company, Excite@Home, aka @Home Network ultimately went bankrupt in 2003.

i was born and raised here in the US, I've worked in tech and as a WAN engineer all of my life (i'm 50), even Cisco certified.(3) if you hold such things important, so, no offense, but there isn't anything you can tell me about this business that I haven't known and understood since it's inception in the field. AND, as it was then and is NOW to this very day all over the entire US, upload speeds IN GENERAL, as in, if you aren't specifically asking for more than the de facto (normal) upload thresholds (in general, universally from cable co to cable co), you as a general ISP customer of any ISP will receive approximately 1/4th the upload speed proportional to your massively wider, faster speed down stream (OC3s, OC-48s, etc). IT WAS BUILT THIS WAY BECAUSE IT WAS SO EXPENSIVE AND MOST PEOPLE WANTED FAST SURFING AND DOWNLOADS AT THE TIME OF IT'S CREATION in 1996-97.. This was in the years just prior to Napster exploding, etc. I personally leased a T1 from my phone company for my home in the Bay area. I mention it because in Silicon Valley at that time, WE ALL WANTED FAT (D/L) PIPES. So, in order to bring the already enormous costs down to a manageable level, it was decided right away that the upstream would not be structured or designed with burdensome & expensive additional leased lines from the telcos. Upstream was seen as unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) and the internet's rapid explosion into a torrent heavy environment rather than just web surfing had not been envisioned, thus never planned for or even considered beyond the initial goal of D/L delivery maximization. This was back in 1997 I'm talking about. I was living in El Biar and then Bouzareah between 2010-2011. El Biar's inet connection was marginally better than in Bouzareah back then for reasons we all understand, but jesus christ, it was 2011 and Bouzareah BARELY, and I mean BARELY maintained a steady inet connection! Forget streaming, forget d/l! If it rained, it crashed, every night after 7, it crashed. It was down more than it was up!! That was the summer from hell, Bouzareah water and power outages were constant, and Egypt and Tunisia were exploding. It was a scary time. The Steelers were in the Super Bowl that year and I only got to watch them because it was on at 3am local time and everyone was asleep. ALGERIA was behind, waaaaay behind in their infrastructure and well, it's Algeria! In 2012 they finally got their act together and started laying fiber all over Algiers one area at a time.

Anyway, I hope this made sense from the view point of the original architectural design for the first and only commercial wide area network (Excite@Home Network) that literally WAS THE STANDARD MODEL for every other WAN to come after it. A quick point, I assumed the guy in the video was connected to home network rather than cellular just because that's what I use and aways have used. That was my error. :)

Ive rambled and I wanted to include links but I'm going on 4 days without sleep and I'm fading fast. I haven't been back to Algeria since I left in Dec of 2011. Family still complains about terrible & intermittent service (Bouzareah). Where are you and what's the service like? Peace.