Americans Surfing on a Slower Web

The U.S. trails other industrialized nations in high-speed Internet access and may never catch up unless quick action is taken by public-policymakers, a report commissioned by the Communications Workers of America warns.

The median U.S. download speed now is 1.97 megabits per second — a fraction of the 61 megabits per second enjoyed by consumers in Japan, says the report released Monday. Other speedy countries include South Korea (median 45 megabits), France (17 megabits) and Canada (7 megabits).

"We have pathetic speeds compared to the rest of the world," CWA President Larry Cohen says. "People don't pay attention to the fact that the country that started the commercial Internet is falling woefully behind."



Someone needs to tell this "Communications Workers of America" group that we are a capitalist country and the free market determines such things. Obviously Americans have no desire for faster bandwidth or else the free market would have taken care of it. The "public-policy makers" (i.e. government) should play no part in such things, as we are not a socialist country.

Right guys? All you capitalists.....you do agree, right?


On another note, I get about 15 megabits and I would like faster bandwidth. But you guys who live out in the rural areas and do not have access to broadband, I'm sure you don't want it anyway or else the free market would have provided it to you.

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