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Report: Broadband In US Homes Nearly 20 Percent
jangobongo writes "A Commerce Department report, prepared in September, shows that the number of Americans using fast internet connections doubled from 2001 to late 2003. Experts are disappointed though, because even though 12 million households switched to broadband, the total amounts to about 19.9 percent of all U.S. households, lagging far behind countries that include South Korea, Taiwan and Canada."
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Yes it's too expensive. Again, it's because the providers care more about profit than service
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Because we all know the best way to stay in business and make obscene profits is to provide crappy service.
Your Marx is showing. You may want to hem it up before going out in public and embarassing yourself.
You can tell a great deal about the character of a man by observing those who hate him.
So you're comfortable knowing that what level of treatment a sick kid gets is totally dependent on the financial status of its family? That the difference between life and death is sometimes when Daddy's health insurance lapsed?
Do you even know how many Americans have no health insurance? Would it even shock you that it's close to 50 million, which is more than one in six people? Do you even care?
If providing social healthcare is high on the agenda for the rebuilding of Iraq then why isn't it high on the agenda for the US?
Keep beating your chest about willingness to fight unnecessary wars. Anything so that you don't have to address those areas of your own society that are less than perfect, right?
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg