FCC redefines "Broadband"

[vlad321]

mrstickball said:

Compared to whom?

If Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Massachusettes and Delaware were independent countries, they would all be in the top 15 countries in the world. So who are you trying to compare to? Korea and Japan, which are well above European internet averages, or what?

I'm not arguing that many parts of the US are behind. But I do believe it has to do with the size of the country, and the massive capital costs to build the infrastructure, as opposed to something else. Parts of the US have acess to insane speeds. I tested on a connection just 2 days ago that was getting speeds of 60mb/d and 45mb/u.

If you average out those states states you get a little over 14 Mbits, 14.09 to be precise. Now let's remove Korea and Japan, and youa r eleft with some pretty amazing countries up there. Bulgaria, Romania, Latvia, Moldova, etc. Kind of pathetic that even the densest regions of the most advanced country can't keep up with countries like those.

As for your NA comparison, I mean seriously? I didn't even know there were more than 3 countries in NA in existance. That's like saying "yeah I came in the race first, out of 3 contestants."