U.S. broadband rollout lags northern Europe, Canada, South Korea
The United States still trails South Korea, Canada and much of northern Europe in rolling out high-speed Internet access, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
An OECD survey, published Monday, counted 16.8 broadband subscriptions per 100 people in the U.S. in December, ranking the country in 12th place among the 30 industrialized member states of the Paris-based organization – up from 13th a year earlier.
In an editorial published April 3 by the Financial Times newspaper, U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Kevin Martin wrote the United States was closing in on President George W. Bushs goal of providing broadband access to every U.S. household.
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