Average U.S. download speed now 1.97Mbps vs. 61Mbps in Japan
by DJ Neawedde | 26th June 2007
While reading this my first thought was “Wow. That makes you and I angry.” Then, I realized, “Oh yeah! The U.S. is always behind on all sorts of consumer level technology” (except the iPhone, yipee!). And don’t use the “size” excuse as Japan is much smaller than the U.S., we’re talking a 59.03Mbps difference in averages here, that’s ridiculous.
For those still in denial that the U.S. is lagging behind in up-to-date technology, please take another look. I mean, look at this dude who installed a 100Mbps fiber network in his neighborhood in Northern Sweden in March 2000.
Other speed demons are South Korea (median 45 megabits), France (17 megabits) and Canada (7 megabits). More [USA Today] via Digg
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Yeah you are so right,
Here in the Netherlands we are averaging around 8MBPS but fibre-optic is rapidly rolling out…I can buy a new broadband account here in amsterdam:
20 Mbps up/down - 35 euro/month
still this is left in the dust by S.Korea/Japan…
,but you can see from this list(link below) what capacity we should have here in Amsterdam,NL by end 2007 by the type of subscriptions on offer in select parts of the city http://www.tweak.nl/?frame=frame_center&page=fiber/subscriptions
June 27th, 2007 at 7:22 am
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