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

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Outdated infrastructure in the U.S. may also be impeding internet access to millions of Americans, and lawmakers have been debating how to increase internet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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 11 2021, @03:44PM (#1186167)

    Yeah, and you also had 100Mb/s powerline Internet access in 2001 when we were lucky to get 3Mb/s DSL in the states.

    The US population, for the most part, doesn't travel, and so they don't know what the rest of the world is like. The US has fewer people with passports than Australia has people abroad, at any time (pre-covid); Just New York City and Los Angeles have half the population of the entire country of AU. Because the US is so insular, the media controlled by private moneyed interests (i.e., right-wing/pro-establisment), and our education system teaches hero worship instead of our actual history let alone history or current events elsewhere in the world, we have an ignorant population*. The clown with the US flag streaming from the back of his pickup truck chanting USA, USA, USA has no idea that the rest of the first world has it better than he does.

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