America has long been the solid ground of the free andthe home plate of lousy net . But harmonise toan FCC report issue today , things are at least trending in the right direction . Which is to say America ’s internet is have quicker , fast .
Since 2011 , the United States upped its average broadband download speeds from 10 Mbps to 31 Mbps as of September 2014 . But compared to other countries , we ’re still struggling to keep up . Accordingto the FCC , the US ranked 25th in download amphetamine in 2013 , falling behind countries like Canada , Hong Kong , Korea , and a slew of western European country like Switzerland , Sweden , the UK , and France . Even with the FCC ’s update numbers , the US would still barely make the top 10 even if all other countries remained static . Akamai ’s 2015 report sooner this yearalso confirms that America still domiciliate squarely outside the top 10 .
America ’s cyberspace infrastructure is incredibly complex , but there are two big reasons why the US ca n’t seem to get up : Geography and lack of competition .
The first one is simple-minded enough . Luxembourg and South Korea have some of the fastest cyberspace on the planet , and not coincidentally , some the small-scale amount of land to cut across . America is friggin ’ immense in contrast so create a libertine , unfluctuating infrastructure to bring high speed broadband to rural and urban areas is a powerful task on its own .
Unfortunately , some ISPs do n’t make thing any easier . Many markets in the US are stymied by monolithic companies like Verizon who control the pipes for other networks and also betray access to consumers . Some 63 percent of Americansonly have one high - swiftness supplier to prefer from , which allow other giants like Comcast and Time Warner Cable the exemption to advance speeds as they please without care of mislay any customers . tally in the fact that streaming video is cursorily becoming the internet mass medium of choice — the FCC speculates it will be 80 percent of all US dealings in 2019 — and things start slow up to a crawl .
But let ’s focus on the positives for a second . Actual broadband speeds are amend across the dining table at a steady cartridge clip , with Cablevision leading the pack at an ordinary 60Mbps .
Even if those jutting mountains of dark blue do n’t get you excited , it ’s also worth nothing that this datum is from month beforethe FCC officially upped the wideband minimum for 4 Mbps to 25 Mbps , not to mentionthat 2015 was a pretty great year for all cyberspace - loving individual . We may not be the best of the best , but things are at least draw better .
[ FCCviaReuters ]
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