The source of the 'investigation': http://www.cwa-union.org/
Considering most of the USA’s phone network was built with union labor, that says quite about about the CWA being responsible for holding us back.
Most of the smaller advanced countries do have better service and better phone systems. That is a fact, the reason. The size of the United States.
Balderdash. 99% of ALL companies are running just fine, thank you, on what we've got. Would we like it faster? Sure, but it isn't exactly stalling commerce. The repot writers need to check their bias at the door.
15 is probably when their next CONTRACT is up...
The REASON, my friends a CWA.. We can’t AFFORD MORE SPEED,, we’re Paying your effing contracts.
/cynic
In Japan, you can get gigabit residential internet for just over a hundred bucks.
Meanwhile, here, Verizon has the best residential internet at 50/20 megabits for over 150 dollars. And thats only for very select locations.
I can get 25/2 megabits from Cox for $70
But they're working hard on improving it.
Uh Korea isn’t even the size of California. Japan? Please. Yeah who would have thought wiring up a country with 20 times the landmass and population would take longer then wiring up the Netherlands. LOL.
BTW: My Internet speed is 25 Mbsp Down and 15 Mbps Up. And yes. That makes me a better person than you. ;-)
I now live in Moldova (find that one) part of the ex-soviet union. Average wage less than $200 a month. I am here in the states for my annual visit... Now Moldova is known as the poorest most densely populated country in Eastern Europe, however I have MUCH better internet connection and speed there than here in the U.S. Also much cheaper!! by 50%
We are talking a country where horse and wagon is a common mode of transportation.
When Obama takes over the Internet, he’ll fix it... /s
i'm getting fiber right to my house october 1st, DSL-11Meg max.There are way too many people in the US on modems though.
It could be argued that it’s allowing other countries to build Internet dominance in some areas.
I’m tired of hearing how the US lags in broadband compared to geographically small countries like SK. The US spans multiple time zones and has every form of geography in the world. It is not as easy to provide broadband to someone in the desert 200 miles from the nearest town as it is to provide broadband to what is basically a city-state in South Korea.
0h n035, I can’t download an entire hardrive worth of information onto my laptop in 125 seconds, what am I going to do, the end of the world has arrived. At the present time, a 10% increase in speed would be nice, and for the next 5-6 years maybe 50-60%, but unless there is a major increase in the size of files I need to download, I will pass on a 1Gb/s internet connection.
Pick a metropolitan geographical area the same size as Korea and then do the comparison.
I’m in Japan and I get 30+Mb/sec ... for about $49/month...
I am thinking that the prices are probably still a little to steep for the average household back in the states to be able to afford. It was ridiculous when I left 11 years ago.
It doesn't.
Don’t worry, when the Senate passes their internet bill we won’t have any internet at all, let alone fast downloads.
The comparison is not well founded. South Korea is a compact and densely settled country. Internet infrastructure costs per capita are therefore less than in the US, which is not as densely populated. The more accurate comparison is to major urban areas of the US, which have more developed internet infrastructure and higher download speeds available for those who want to pay for it.