[Cana]

You live in populated region? I mean, it's the same in Helsinki too? Just strange, I can't believe that anything in Russia can be better than in USA and than in some of eu countries...
Because here I got like ~10 ISP's around, all trying to compete with eachother, thus, you get some neat offers, aka - any of providers will re-connect you to their network instead of your current provider if you already have one, for absolutely free. My neighbour who doesn't work often changed them just because he had too big debt to his current ISP... I get calls from my ISP's consumer service almost monthly, they are making sure if i'm satisfed with their services XD

Not in Helsinki and I'm not sure how it would be there, but I live in the 3rd biggest municipality in the country. Honestly there has been very little progress in last 10 years. Some other areas do get better connection (optical fiber 100/100, 20€/month) but coverage is still very bad overall and installation fees are stupidly high. I do get the same calls from ISPs periodically. Transfer is always free, but there is no point switching because all of them offer the exact same deal and I already have the best deal possible for my area. I honestly wouldn't even need more than 20 download, but 1Mbps upload nowadays is terrible. Google fiber, come save us!