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US Lags in Broadband

August 29, 2007 on 12:35 pm | In IdBlog, Spin |

Today the Washington Post’s Foreign Bureau posted an interesting piece about broadband internet service in Japan and how it has outstripped American connectivity. The median download speed in Japan is 61 megabytes per second, while the average American’s throughput is about 2 mbps. Furthermore, the Japanese pay less for their net connections.

Why is that?