Report: Romania Soars Past U.S. in High-Speed Internet ...

http://www.beet.tv/2008/11/romania-beats-u.html
The United States is lagging behind many nations in high-speed Internet connectivity, coming in at eighth place with 26 percent of broadband of users on connections greater than 5 Mbps, Akamai's "State of the Internet" report shows. South Korea has maintained its top position with 58 percent of broadband users surfing on fast connections, and Romania soared up the list to third place with 43 percent, nearly twice as high of a percentage of high broadband connectivity as last quarter. I posted an image of the country list below.

Walt Mossberg: Much of U.S. Broadband is "Crap"

Even the high-speed Internet users in the U.S. can't compare globally: The 5 Mpbs high-speed benchmark is still slow compared connections of up to 1 Gbps in other countries. At the Beet.TV Roundtable in Washington, D.C. April 1, All Things D co-executive editor Walt Mossberg discussed the sad state of broadband in the U.S.




"We really suck at broadband. We have terrible, terrible broadband," he says. "...768 kb per second is not broadband by world standards and our government has no broadband policy, and even if the FTC would adopt a regulation not allowing Verizon to call that crap broadband, it would help."

Mossberg also called on the future administration to take a hand in the matter. "We need some serious action from the next president to say that this is just as strategic as the Interstate highway system," he says.

President-elect Obama has pledged to do exactly that with the creation of the cabinet-level Chief Technology Officer post. The new CTO will oversee a national broadband buildout to stimulate the economy, Tom Lowry reported in BusinessWeek last month, and Dan Farber posted the official job description on his blog earlier this month: "Obama will appoint the nation's first Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to ensure that our government and all its agencies have the right infrastructure, policies and services for the 21st century. The CTO will ensure the safety of our ...

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[NukeReactor]

@MrXclio erm daddy britain gave us only some train lines,oh wait,we actually made the 99% of the train that runs today.

also,speaking phone network,lol u are talking about india in 90's?

i agree britishers did many good,but they took more wealth from us than they gave us

also,speaking of muslims,yeah,look at ur britan,its britanistan :)

[MrXclio]

@NukeReactor are typical indiuns!!!! child mentalty i blame daddy for everything,

1 daddy britain gave you your trains.

daddy britain gave you your sewer network water lines, power cables, rickety phone network (because you can't maintain it).

if it hadn't been for those british, you would still be drinking and eating cow shit and piss. worshipping false idols like vishnu, and riding oxe's to work. oh wait you still are,

my bad, at least you can stop those muslim fanatics from :I

[sergheiadrian]

@maxten Don't be fooled by Borat, Romania is the in Top 5 countries worldwide when it comes to internet speed.

[maxten]

this coming from the country where "Borat" filmed his Khazakhstan home location.

[JavaNocKziK]

@selearemus They may have wireless satellite, but that's only there to fill out the spaces where they don't have fibre connections, and those satellite connections go all the way up-to 1.2Gbps apparently.

[selearemus]

2nd place goes for japan, why? they have wireless and we all know that wireless suck 50 kb/s LOL

optical fiber=high speed internet so if usa change the normal wires with optical fiber they will be in top 10

[selearemus]

romania wasn't a rich country and it won't be ever!

20-30 years ago we had a lot of political problems and the population was very poor

[unurautare2]

yeah you are right in what you say :<

[NukeReactor]

romania was a rich country as well in 20s-30s...but then commies went them down...and then they recovered brilliantly...so did many european countries...and yes ur right at that pont"we are fucked up by our own ppl"...u can see population matters....

thing is...we still maintained a 7% growth rate last financial year ..when most of the economically developed countries was in turmoil...so it isnt that bad :)

[NukeReactor]

lol as per the brown skin color is concerned..nope i dont blame it...as per 20 per kids concerned...no family(at least i have ever seen has such) and as per economy is concerned...population hurts as well as the british thiefs also hurts...ever head of the drain of wealth during the british rule...i blame them for that...