US Broadband Won't Catch Up With Japan's For 101 Years

An anonymous reader writes "Internet speeds of users nationwide shows that the United States has not made significant improvements in deploying high-speed broadband networks in the past year, and if the average US Internet speed continues to improve only at the same rate it did from 2007 to 2008, the country won't catch up with Japan's current download speed for another 100 years, according to findings released by the Communications Workers of America's (CWA's) Speed Matters campaign." With enough statistical mangling, nearly anything can be presented as plausible, but that's not enough to cover up my envy of Asian broadband speeds.

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[Ancient_Hacker]

Perhaps one should try looking at a map. Japan is small, habitable areas even smaller. That means wires can be short and cheap. Japan's people are well-trained to pay any amount for whatever biz and govt say they should buy. So you end up with lots of wideband tubes, perhaps not being used to anywhere near capacity.

The USA however, is a BIG place. Expensive to wire up Montana and Texas and the rest. And consumers here while still mildly hypnotized by advertising, occasionally want a choice in speeds and costs.

You decide which regime you want to live under.