Why is public access to the internet poorer in the west than in the east?

Several people have asked why we have been irregular in publishing our posts in the last month. One reason may be that we have been staying with friends and that there have been fewer opportunities to sit down and write. However another factor has been that Western Europe is simply less well connected to the internet in public places than many of the countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Turkey is the best connected country we have been in by a mile. Almost every public place in Turkey has wifi. When you arrive you just ask for the password and log-on. The idea of a bar NOT having wifi would be strange in Turkey yet when you ask in Paris or Geneva if they have wifi, you would think you had just asked for a rare exotic dish.