Yes, apparently, the "most powerful country on the planet", the "only Superpower", gets even less average broadband bandwidth than Canada does, according to ITIF. That is disgusting. I wish somebody would explain why we offer such inferior services in this country, at higher prices, than other places. It is time we stop believing that paying more for everything means we are getting better quality. It simply is not true and people need to stop believing that propoganda.
The following is quoted from http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060913-7731.html:
In Japan, symmetrical 100Mbps connections are available for less than $35 per month, while residents of South Korea can get similarly speedy fiber optic connections for around $32. Those speeds are unheard of for consumer broadband in the US, and prices for much slower hookups are significantly higher—Comcast charges $69 for 10Mbps/768Kbps service where I live, by way of example.
I do not know for sure, but I am willing to bet that we will find similar situations when we delve into issues where we routinely believe that paying more for less means we have the highest quality on the planet. I really wonder if we will find out the dark secret in health care that paying more per capita than any other nation on the planet actually does not have us at the top in quality either.
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