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People in the U.S. Pay More for Slower Internet Than European, Canadian, and Asian Counterparts

posted by janrinok on Sunday October 10 2021, @11:04PM   Printer-friendly
from the I-feel-the-need-for-speed! dept.

upstart writes:

People in the U.S. pay more for slower internet than European, Canadian, and Asian counterparts, according to the Open Technology Institute:

A survey conducted earlier this year by the Pew Research Center found that 7% of Americans lack access to reliable broadband. One reason for this may be how expensive internet access is in the U.S.

"People in the U.S. pay more for slower internet than people abroad," Open Technology Institute policy analyst Claire Park said. "For many consumers, the cost of getting online right now is simply too high and also too complicated."

The Open Technology Institute has been studying the price and speed of internet services advertised within the United States as well as abroad. Its 2020 Cost of Connectivity Report found that the average advertised monthly cost of internet in the U.S. is $68.38, which is higher than the average price of internet access for all of North America, Europe and Asia.

Outdated infrastructure in the U.S. may also be impeding internet access to millions of Americans, and lawmakers have been debating how to increase internet availability and performance.

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  • (Score: 2) by mcgrew on Monday October 11 2021, @03:20PM (2 children)

    by mcgrew (701) <publish@mcgrewbooks.com> on Monday October 11 2021, @03:20PM (#1186159) Homepage Journal

    Verizon is a phone company. Only phones work on their network... or are you one of the muggles who thinks your phone is the internet?

    Are you lost, little one?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:30PM (#1186164)

    I spoke of how to use the phone data connection tethered to an AP or router to provide unlimited Internet access to all the devices e.g., computers in your home. What part of that did you not understand "little one"?

    Tethered 75Mb/s down 5Mb/s up for $25/mo is about half as expensive as the equivalent service from the cable co. in my area. And, is 15 times faster than the fastest DSL service available in my area. But, if you have more money than brains...

  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by RS3 on Monday October 11 2021, @04:34PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Monday October 11 2021, @04:34PM (#1186187)

    More and more cell phone providers are converting to VOIP / VoLTE only- no more 3G/4G/LTE (SS7) voice.

    Basically they're converting from "circuit-switched" (SS7) to "packet-switched" networking. Many are providing an app you install to make voice calls if your phone doesn't natively support VOIP / VoLTE.

    This might help explain: https://www.netmanias.com/en/post/blog/10905/lte-volte/part-1-what-happens-when-a-user-performs-a-voice-call-from-an-lte-4g-network-overview [netmanias.com]