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Showing Original Post only (View all)This is how Internet speed and price in the U.S. compares to the rest of the world [View all]
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/internet-u-s-compare-globally-hint-slower-expensive/Even though the Internet was invented in the United States, Americans pay the most in the world for broadband access. And its not exactly blazing fast.
For an Internet connection of 25 megabits per second, New Yorkers pay about $55 nearly double that of what residents in London, Seoul, and Bucharest, Romania, pay. And residents in cities such as Hong Kong, Seoul, Tokyo and Paris get connections nearly eight times faster.
We can't have nice things, otherwise the rich couldn't feel so special.
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This is how Internet speed and price in the U.S. compares to the rest of the world [View all]
edhopper
Jun 2016
OP
Man I hate paying that extra 40 bucks to the cable company just so the NSA can spy on me...
Matt_R
Jun 2016
#39
In podunkville Oregon we pay $60 a month for 5mbps which rarely exceeds 2mbps.
OregonBlue
Jun 2016
#9
In my tiny town, there is a small local ISP who is installing fiber as fast as they can
passiveporcupine
Jun 2016
#62
How is it they get away with that? If we were to say, "Oh. I'm only going to pay $x this month..."
C Moon
Jun 2016
#13
sounds slow for fiber and generally they do not call the product dsl if it is fiber
dembotoz
Jun 2016
#32
We need to take it up with companies like Comcast as well since they deliver Internet
totodeinhere
Jun 2016
#59
I just recently switched to a new internet provider - it's 200mps for about $55.
closeupready
Jun 2016
#48
"So why are Americans paying more for slower service? The answer: There’s limited competition"
Spitfire of ATJ
Jun 2016
#61