Fergie's Tech Blog

True or False: U.S.'s Broadband Penetration Is Lower Than Even Estonia's

Steven Levy writes on Newsweek:

Maybe our proud nation is going through some rough spots, but at least we have one shining and perpetual triumph: the Internet. People may refer to it as the World Wide Web, but its capital is Silicon Valley and the United States is the big dog tapping the global keyboard.

At least that's what we thought, until the news broke in April of a report by the international Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that ranked the high-speed broadband adoption of 30 countries in the developed world. The United States was not first. Or second, or third. It ranked 15th.

posted by Fergie @ 6/29/2007 11:03:00 AM