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Here’s a not-so-shocker: Americans on average suffer from slower internet speeds than 27 other countries.

Web surfing in the U.S. averages around 5.1 megabits per second (mbps), lagging far behind top-ranked South Korea, where speeds average more than 20 mbps. In 2007, the U.S. download speed was 3.5 mbps, inching up only 1.6 mbps since then. At that rate, notes the report, it will take the U.S. 15 years to catch up with South Korea. [CNET]

The U.S. is the only country without a national policy to promote high-speed Internet access, noted the report. But that may be about to change.
Signed earlier this year, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act includes a provision for a national broadband plan by spring of next year and grants of $7.2 billion to bring high-speed Internet to rural and remote locations across the country.
That’s a step in the right direction, said the CWA. But the organization would like to see more specific improvements.

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