Internet Speed in the United States Exposes How Lame Our System Is

Here's a Huffington Post article about the interent speed variations across the globe. A NYTimes opinion piece explains how American monopolies make Interent speeds and service vastly compromised. 

Regarding this topic of slow Internet speed, Dan HL writes:

You have monopolies like Time Warner and Comcast running the show in the USA. They can charge a fortune for crappy service and get away with it because they have no competition.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=competition-and-the-internet

Posted by: DanHL | January 31, 2013 at 02:38 PM

Here's an excerpt from the article explaining why:

"A decade ago the U.S. ranked at or near the top of most studies of broadband price and performance. But that was before the FCC made a terrible mistake. In 2002 it reclassified broadband Internet service as an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service.” In theory, this step implied that broadband was equivalent to a content provider (such as AOL or Yahoo!) and was not a means to communicate, such as a telephone line. In practice, it has stifled competition."

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