The U.S. is falling behind the rest of the industrialized world — in high-speed Internet access.
The U.S. is a distant sixth in terms of how fast data moves for homes, schools, hospitals and workplaces, according to a study released by the Communications Workers of America.
The median Internet speed in the U.S. is 1.97 megabits per second. In California, it’s even slower, at 1.52 mbps. Both are dwarfed by Japan, which offers users 61 mbps at the same price as U.S. service.
What that means is best described in this example: Downloading a movie in Japan takes two minutes compared with more than two hours in the U.S.
The list goes like this:
1.Japan61 mbps
2. South Korea 45.6 mbps
3. Finland 21.7 mbps
4. Sweden 18.2 mbps
5. Canada 7.6 mbps
6. U.S. 1.97 mbps
