China has captured a lot of our industrial sector jobs and their economy is growing much faster than ours. Are we supposed to shrug our shoulders and surrender our supremacy in information technology to Asia too? Can you suggest a strategy to reverse the trend - or are you saying we should just carry on as we currently do and continue to fall behind?
Availability is more important than raw speed. We don't have to have the fastest broadband speeds, but we do need the widest deployment if we are going to regain the leadership position. The one advantage we have is top-quality content. But if we don't have a way to deliver it, that could change too.
China started from practically zero not long ago.
Of course they are growing quickly, there was nowhere but up to go.
We’re highly developed so there isn’t nearly as much room for growth.
Large parts of China are dirt poor, literally.
As far as deployment, it would be far more interesting how many computers there are per capita in each country and how powerful those computers are.
Internet access is available virtially anywhere in the world in one form or another.