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Yeah Scandinavian countries are great in this respect.
In US, they often only have one or two providers in a region, as their original telecoms systems were never fully integrated as US is so massive.
In Europe, most countries (each much smaller than US, coupled with a higher population density) had a single state telecom system infrastructure, and most have been privatised with normally quite strict rules encouraging competition, it means you can be anywhere in country practically - even in quite remote locations, but choose whatever provider you wish.
This is less true with 4G mobiles e.g. in UK all claim 95% coverage, but that is disengenous as it is 95% of population, not area, so out in the sticks, reception is often non-existent. Also, even in towns, you get lots of blackspots. So the 95% of population is a gross exaggeration - I would bet realistically it is around 70%!