A better comparison would be to determine which country is the best wired for broadband among regions of similar population density. In that department, I'm very confident that the US still is not in the top ten. I live in Manhattan. I can get 768 kbps DSL and that's it. Many places can get 6.5 Mbps DSL, or they can get so-called cable, which degrades at times of high usage. Compared to what's available in Sweden or Korea or even Estonia, it's a joke.
And like most bad jokes, it won't end nearly soon enough. No one in government is so much as contemplating forcing the telecoms to adopt even 1990's technology, much less 21st century.
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A better comparison would be to determine which country is the best wired for broadband among regions of similar population density. In that department, I'm very confident that the US still is not in the top ten. I live in Manhattan. I can get 768 kbps DSL and that's it. Many places can get 6.5 Mbps DSL, or they can get so-called cable, which degrades at times of high usage. Compared to what's available in Sweden or Korea or even Estonia, it's a joke.
And like most bad jokes, it won't end nearly soon enough. No one in government is so much as contemplating forcing the telecoms to adopt even 1990's technology, much less 21st century.