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[ NNSquad ] VB: "Why Americans pay so much for crappy Internet and phone service"
VB: "Why Americans pay so much for crappy Internet and phone service" http://j.mp/Q3ugTm (VentureBeat) "Slower Internet than Bulgaria. Data rates 38 times more expensive than Japan. And only 5 percent of the upload speed generally found in France. In his new book The Fine Print, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Cay Johnston tell us, among other things, what's wrong with the Internet in America. The answer is fairly depressing: It's too slow, too expensive, and too controlled by a duopoly of AT&T and Verizon. Japan has fiberoptic Internet available to many homes with speeds of 100 or 200 megabits per second, and, believe it or not, an available 1 gigabit per second service. (At least one place in the U.S, Chattanooga, Tenn., can get an equivalent speed.) South Korea is still the king of Internet speeds, however, with an average 17.5 megabits per second to all homes. Average speed in the U.S., meanwhile is a measly 5.8 megabits per second - actually a decrease from U.S speeds of 2011, according to Royal Pingdom. It's the barely visible blue line in the chart below: ..." - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad