Americans are paying more for broadband speed but getting less – one of the biggest rackets of the telecom world

It’s one of the biggest rackets of the telecom world — broadband Internet access touted as being "up to" a certain speed but that’s really a whole lot slower.

You think you’re buying cyber-lightning. What you’re likely getting instead is a gentle digital breeze.

This week, the New York attorney general’s office said enough’s enough. It sent letters to Time Warner Cable, Verizon Communications and Cablevision asking why some customers experience reduced download speeds.

David Lazarus

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