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US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration
amigoro writes "According to research done by the consultancy firm Point Topic, the US has fallen to 24th place in terms of broadband penetration, with only 53% of households connected. South Korea led the pack, with 90% of households having highspeed connections. The US remains the largest broadband country in the world with more than 60.4 million subscribers in the quarter with 2.9 million new broadband additions, but China is fast catching up and has cut the gap to the US from 5.8 million at the end of 2006 to 4.1 million at end of March 2007. The firm's research also pointed out the disparity between the connectivity of first world nations and other places throughout the world. 'Many Sub-Saharan African states do not register in the figures at all: only South Africa, Sudan, Senegal and Gabon make it onto the list, with household broadband penetration running from 1.79% in South Africa - with 215,000 users at the end of March - to just 0.05% in Sudan - with a mere 3,000. North African states fare slightly better with Morocco scoring 6.78% penetration with 418,000 users and Egypt at 1.55% or 240,000.'"
You never hear Americans complaining about the CIA? Are you deaf or just playing stupid? My guess would be the latter.
Stop making excuses. We in the US have plenty of wealth and huge companies with more than enough resources. There is no reason decent high speed net access shouldn't be available to everyone bar those living in the sticks and mountains. Higher density areas like LA, NY etc, should have access to the same high levels as those in other countries. We should be expecting at least 100/100mbps services for the same prices we pay for our crappy cablemodems and DSL in our denser cities. The simple reason we don't, is that companies have been getting away with shit services because there is effectively no competition. The other countries just so happen to have many companies dying to offer you competitive prices for their services.