Broadband: Other Countries Do it Better, But How?

May 12th, 2008

The US continues to fall on global broadband rankings, even as countries that are more rural and less wealthy surge ahead. Here’s how they do it (hint: it does not involve wholesale deregulation).

Here’s a list of rankings from other articles:


Report US ranking
FTTH Council, “Asia Lead the World in FTTH Penetration” (July 18, 2007) 11
Robert Atkinson, “The Case for a National Broadband Policy” (June 2007) 12
OECD, “Broadband Statistics to December 2006″ 15
ITU, “Broadband Statistics for 1 January 2006″ 15
ITU United Nations Conf. on Trade and Develop., “Chapter 3, the Digital Opportunity Index” 20
Website Optimization, LLC, “US Jumps to 24th in Worldwide Broadband Penetration” (August 21, 2007) 24


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