The Boomtown Institute – Internet Speed in the United States

The results of a second annual survey of Internet speeds, conducted by the Communication Workers of America, show that the United States has not made significant improvement in the speeds at which residents connect to the Internet. Our nation continues to fall far behind other countries. The median download speed for the nation was 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). In Japan, the median download speed is 63 mbps, or 30 times faster than the U.S.

The survey included nearly 230,000 people in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Surveyors visited http://www.speedmatters.org and took an Internet speed test. The final results show that the United States has fallen to 15th behind other industrialized nations in the percent of the population subscribing to broadband.

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