In 2021, we need to fix America’s internet: We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them from r/technology

IN 2021, WE NEED TO FIX AMERICA’S INTERNET

We pay twice as much as Europe for high speeds, assuming we can even get them

https://www.theverge.com/22177154/us-internet-speed-maps-competition-availability-fcc

Across the country, the FCC and internet service providers are pretending there’s competition in an unimaginable number of places where it doesn’t actually exist.

As FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel wrote for The Verge last March, as many as one in three US households doesn’t have broadband internet access, currently defined as just 25Mbps down and 3Mbps up — which feels like the bare minimum for a remote learning family these days.

early 12 million children don’t have a broadband connection at home, the Senate Joint Economic Committee reported in 2017. And the “homework gap” hits harder if you’re poor, of course: only 56 percent of households with incomes under $30,000 had broadband as of last February, according to the Pew Research Center.

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more on netneutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality