I would really not go and say that China, as one of the stated examples in the article, is "kicking America's ass"...
I live in shanghai and pay for what my provider says is a 250 kbps ADSL connection. If I surf chinese websites based in China speed does, indeed, kick ass... but download speeds drop alarmingly as soon as I visit websites hosted outside of China. My regular surfing download speed is more akin to a 28.8 kbps modem than anything else where I average 5 kbps for downloading from US or Canadian websites. Certainly not what I would call broadband!
Then again.... that's because of the great firewall of China, not the net providers (eventhough they go hand-in-hand and are one and the same).
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I would really not go and say that China, as one of the stated examples in the article, is "kicking America's ass"...
I live in shanghai and pay for what my provider says is a 250 kbps ADSL connection. If I surf chinese websites based in China speed does, indeed, kick ass... but download speeds drop alarmingly as soon as I visit websites hosted outside of China. My regular surfing download speed is more akin to a 28.8 kbps modem than anything else where I average 5 kbps for downloading from US or Canadian websites. Certainly not what I would call broadband!
Then again.... that's because of the great firewall of China, not the net providers (eventhough they go hand-in-hand and are one and the same).