US Ranking for Broadband Falls

Ant writes "Broadband Reports mentions Declan McCullagh's CNET editorial where he believes everything is a-ok in the world of broadband, and people concerned with falling global rankings are over-reacting. 'FCC figures released last month show that 94.3 percent of U.S. ZIP codes have high-speed lines available to them,' he writes; though as we've pointed out, the FCC considers one home in a zip code with broadband to mean that entire zip code is 'serviced.'"

Comments

FCC

[Detritus]

Do they mean 'serviced', as in 'our cow was serviced by the bull'?

Re:FCC

[temojen]

They do if they're talking about Telus.

My parents live on the Oregon coast

[Anonymous Coward]

Where they live, there is no broadband. They have DSL.

Eh, some areas you'll never manage to cover..

[t_allardyce]

Y'all that there government said we could have ourselves ay free 'broad band' co-nection for arh trailor!

Them 'engyneers' betta get the hell off ma land!

Michael Powell

[killermookie]

Michael Powell isn't terribly concerned. "Better data is needed," Powell admits. "But the data we have is still valuable." Who most benefits from the "value" of that data is the billion dollar question.

Has Michael Powell really become this useless?

Re:Complete BS

[ugmoe]

And what about Bush fixing the digital divide?

He's being held back by Al Gore patent on the internet.

Re:It's all percentage versus real numbers

[niXcamiC]

The United States is losing to the countries with high population density

Yep, good old Canada, weve got a real high pop density here...