US Broadband: Still No ISP Choice For Many, Especially at Higher Speeds (arstechnica.com)

Despite things getting better with adoption -- however slow -- of Google Fiber in several regions of the United States, the broadband market has gotten slightly less competitive since 2013, says a new report from the FCC. The report adds that, as a result, Americans still have little choice of high-speed broadband providers (PDF). From an ArsTechnica report: At the FCC's 25Mbps download/3Mbps upload broadband standard, there are no ISPs at all in 30 percent of developed census blocks and only one offering service that fast in 48 percent of the blocks. About 55 percent of census blocks have no 100Mbps/10Mbps providers, and only about 10 percent have multiple options at that speed. At the 10Mbps/1Mbps threshold -- which captures slower DSL technology in addition to cable and fiber -- about 90 percent of census blocks have at least two providers. These numbers exclude satellite, which is available nearly everywhere but has high latency and often low data caps. Even these numbers overstate the amount of competition, because an ISP might offer service to only part of a census block. The percentage of households with choice is thus even lower.

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Re:They already have

[Opportunist]

Then how comes that we over here in socialist commie pinko Europe routinely get speeds in the 50/10 ballpark even in remote rural areas with like 10 huts, a church and a place to get wasted on the weekends?

When I read that the FCC considers 25/3 "broadband" I had to check whether the posting is current or whether the /. database barfed and smuggled a post from 1999 into the feed.