Montana and United States Falling Behind in high speed Internet adoption
| March 3, 2009 |  View for printing |
We need high speed Internet for our homes, schools, hospitals, and the workplaces of the future. But countries like Canada, France and South Korea have better, faster Internet connections. People in Japan can download an entire movie in just two minutes — it can take two hours or more in the United States — but they pay the same as we do in the U.S. for their Internet connection.
Not only do they have higher speeds, but a larger percentage of people in those countries have access to high speed connections. The United States is 15th behind other industrialized nations in high speed Internet adoption.
Full Story: http://files.cwa-union.org/speedmatt ... Montana.pdf
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(Many thanks to Paul DeWolfe for passing this along. Russ)
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