High-Speed Broadband Making Headway In the US

darthcamaro writes "No, the US isn't the fastest nation on Earth, and it's not the most connected. But according to a new report, it sure is getting a whole lot better lately. 'I think the US growth rate is something we expected,' David Belson, Akamai's director of market intelligence and author of the report, told InternetNews.com. 'If you look at the money being spent to build out the fiber to the home infrastructure, and if you look at the competitive deals that are going on, vendors are trying hard to make it affordable and "outspeed" each other.'"

Comments

cities are ok

[jacquesm]

it's the rural areas where the real problems are, telcos are simply not motivated to do anything at all about it.

In the cities you can usually choose between several broadband providers, in the sticks you're lucky if you have one.

If not then it's good old dial up or isdn for you.

Re:Stupid benchmark.

[QRDeNameland]

not me. Ill take 100 mb/sec with a cap of 250 GB a month over 758 kb/sec with no cap.

Never mind your fancy numbers. All I want to know is that my "broadband" is "high-speed". Then when everyone has "high-speed broadband", they can sell me "large-capacity high-speed broadband" which will be even better.

Now excuse me, I must leave for my job at the Department of Redundancy Department, and if I get modded Redundant, I'll take it as a compliment.