North America Is Considered the Slowest, Costliest Broadband

North America Is Considered the Slowest, Costliest Broadband

Today was the Federal Communications Commission's deadline for public comment on the Berkman Center For Internet and Society's recent study, that examines the growth of broadband Internet access in other countries and the factors that have made those markets more competitive than in the US.
"We find that in countries where an engaged regulator enforced open access obligations, competitors that entered using these open access facilities developed competition which, in most cases contributed to strong connectivity performance across a range of metrics."

The lowest prices and highest speeds are almost all offered by companies participating in a market with telephone, cable, and competitors who built their presence through open access facilities.

The highest priced and slowest services are "overwhelmingly offered by firms in the United States and Canada...markets structured around competition between owning a telephone system and a cable system.