US Internet speeds won't catch up with Japan in 100 years

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: August 13, 2008 5:11:28 PM EDT
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] US Internet speeds won't catch up with Japan in  
100 years

US Internet speeds won't catch up with Japan in 100 years
Posted 5 hours ago by clark
<http://you.presscue.com/story/us-internet-speeds-wont-catch-japan-100-years 
>
Internet speeds of users nationwide shows that the United States has  
not made significant improvements in deploying high-speed broadband  
networks in the past year, and at the if the average US Internet speed  
continues to improve only at the same rate it did from 2007 to 2008,  
the country won't catch up with Japan's current download speed for  
another 100 years, according findings released by the Communications  
Workers of America's (CWA's) Speed Matters campaign.

The report also shows that the US continues to lag behind other  
industrial nations and currently is ranked 15th in the percentage of  
residents who have broadband access.

More than 230,000 people took the campaign’s speed survey on their  
home computers and found that we’re not downloading or uploading much  
faster than a year ago.

The 2008 median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3  
megabits per second. This represents a gain of only 0.4 mbps over last  
year’s median download speed. It compares to an average download speed  
in Japan of 63 mbps, the survey reveals.

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