The U.S. Lags Way Behind in Internet Connectivity Speed
March 15, 2010 at 4:50 PM Leave a comment
The FCC is working on a plan to increase Internet use in the United States and to bring it out of 18th place in the world (South Korea is at #1) in terms of speed.
Its goal is to give 100 million households access to Internet connections that transfer 100 megabits of data per second.
The average U.S. Internet speed today is much slower [to say the least] — only 3.9 megabits per second, according to the Internet monitor Akamai.
The U.S. has only the 18th fastest Internet connections in the world, behind countries like South Korea, which leads the world with 14.6 megabit-per-second data transfer rates.
Yet the media would have us believe we’re #1 in everything.
When, oh when, will we have a better media?
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