Report: US falling further behind on broadband speeds


	Report: US falling further behind on broadband speeds

Kauaiguy

11-18-2008 7:17 PM

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internet, economics, business, technology

Kauaiguy says:

U.S. broadband model: Make it slow and expensive. People will expect less or lose interest altogether. Then you can ague post hoc there is no consumer interest in faster broadband speeds.

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The latest measure of the state of the US broadband market is now available and, like many other takes on the subject, the picture it paints is a bit depressing.  The report puts the US in 15th place when it comes to national broadband speeds, and indicates that improvements are coming very slowly.
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Still, the US median download speed is up about 20 percent from last year.  In absolute terms, however, that rise is an anemic 400kbps.  Put in international terms, as the authors of the report were happy to do, it will take 100 years of increases at the current absolute rate before the US gets to where Japan is at today.
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