On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 16:43:39 PDT, Jeroen van Aart said: > Jay Ashworth wrote: > > Even Cracked realizes this: > > > > http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reasons-internet-access-in-america-disaster > > > > That can't be good. > > <ignorant?> > > "up to 10 percent of the country can't even get basic broadband" > > I think I saw much larger numbers a few years ago when I read some hype > stories about how broadband access in the USA sucks. I am positively > surprised the gap has narrowed that much.
The FCC numbers say "10% can't get it", computed on a per-county basis. However, if *one* person in one corner of the county closest to a major city can get broadband, then *everybody in the county* is counted as "can get broadband" by the FCC, even if 99.8% of them are 15 or 20 cable miles away from actually getting anything usable. So the *actual* numbers are much worse than the FCC numbers.
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