US really lags in broadband: 12th according to the OECD

"At Freedom to Connect (April 3-4, 2006 in Washington DC), someone mentioned that the US was 20th - behind Slovenia."

Or maybe we are 12th... What the study doesn't touch is the issue of the speed of our broadband connections which makes the picture even worse. From Muniwireless:

Title: US really lags in broadband: 12th according to the OECD

Summary: Despite FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s fervent wish that it were not so, the OECD says that, as of December 2005, the US ranks 12th among industrialized nations in the number of broadband subscribe...

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