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.

Comments

Euro/Japan envy is getting stupid

[Buran]

It seems to me like a lot of people have the attitude that somehow everything is better in Europe or Japan. Enough already. There's more to life than how fast you can download porn, illegal torrents, and other pointless stuff.

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[TheRealMindChild]

The United States is not going to be doing shit in this area, any more than the British, the French, the Spanish or the Romans are.

I have a gweat fwiend in WOME named.... Biggus................... DICKUS.

What would we do with all that bandwidth?!?!

[CaptScarlet22]

That's the question I keep on asking people...

What?? Fast torrent uploads and downloads?!?!...whoopee dingy....

Streaming better Video???

VOIP?!?!

What else???

Faster Slashdot?? How fast do you need text to render on a page?? It's already pretty damm quick....

I don't know folks...I'm in IT(have been for decades)....I see faster bandwidth plausibly for corporations. But home use not so much when half the sites are slower then you!