New survey - US broadband is slow and expensive

The United States is falling dangerously behind other industrialized nations in terms of availability, bandwidth and cost. We are losing competitive advantage while lawyers and politicians continue to guard the last mile from any real competition. The most definitive contrast is at the cutting edge. In Japan NTT residential connection (100 Mbps down/up) costs $49 a month. In US, Verizon FiOS (30 megabits down/5 megabits up) costs $179.95 plus taxes.

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