California first in US broadband internet
A state-of-the-art study of California’s broadband status — current and projected — found that California leads the nation in providing broadband for its citizens, but the digital divide between well-off and not-so-well-off still exists. In releasing its 83-page report Thursday, the California Broadband Task Force (CBTF) reported that barely half of Californians are using broadband at home and, in addition, that 42% of low-income families do not even have computers at home compared with higher income families of which just 9% lack computers. As expected, urban areas are well-supplied with broadband services while rural areas are not. The CBTF found that 1.4 million state residents are without any broadband access at all. The northern Sierra Mountain area offers broadband in less than 60% of the region.
Very high speed broadband — 10 Mbps — is available to about one-half of Californians, most of it in urban areas; generally, the most robust broadband is provided in Southern California around Los Angeles and Orange County. Broadband is available for 99% of San Francisco Bay Area households and 98% of Los Angeles households. The CBTF suggested several actions aimed at spreading more robust broadband throughout the state ranging from easing permitting standards to encouraging collaboration among providers to creating a statewide online health network to simultaneously improve health care and boost broadband access. The CBTF also suggested that improved e-education efforts would likely help spread broadband access throughout the state. While California could boast it leads the U.S. in broadband access, the state still lags when compared to other countries. It would rank 10th internationally - still a far cry from Japan and their 100 Mbits for everyone…
Source: InfoWeek
technology central in california.
Nova Scotia has Eastlink internet… fastest I’ve ever used
Here in Sweden almost the whole country have access to ADSL and/or cablebroadband with speeds up to 24Mbit. A large number of households have fibre access with speeds up to 100Mbit.
This all doesn’t mention that in the 99% areas like LA and Orange County, the populace is so jam packed and the spread for a single hub is so large that 10Mbps becomes 56k-1mb speed for 300,000 people in like 5 square miles. (a bit of a hyperbole but its bad I lived there)
10/10mbit is very common in Sweden. 100/10 mbit is pretty common. 100/100 mbit is popping up here and there.
And usually you get close to your theoretical max.
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California Broadband Task Force said California is the best in the nation for broadband? Shocking
In related news, The Me Institute of Me has published a study naming me the best in awesomeness.
They both may have been a little biased, no?
Damn I want one in Venezuela, top speed here is 2mbits in the best case.
I still have dialup at home
thankfully there is work
Here in mexico the internet speed sucks.
I have 1 motherfu.. mbit
I hope that a big internet company enters here, and then, we can have at least a 10mbits or more.
So another state should have done the study in California? I don’t think California has a “1st boner” like some people who post here.
Those are the moments i want to be Japanese…
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same number of people in all of Sweden = population of New York City. Kind of hard to compare Sweden to the entire USA.
Despite the fact that we are first in broadband in our country, our internet sucks complete ass compared to a lot of other nations. The standard for most homes is usually 6-10 Mb/sec via DSL or Cable. We would love a statewide fiber optic solution but thats limited due to a lot of political and economic vying by the carriers here and you can pretty much only get it at the moment if you own a home of your own and live in specific parts of the state. I live in an area lucky enough to have that kind of service but I only live in an apartment where only DSL or cable is possible.
Very high speed broadband — 10 Mbps
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The UK sucks compared with many other places. Average speed is 2mb -although a few do get (a very expensive) 20mb
10 pounds a month is hardly expensive,youd pay that for just one of the movies you download
10 pounds a month is far cheaper than most broadband.
100/100 mbit/s = paradise XD
“Very high speed broadband — 10 Mbps — is available to about one-half of Californians,”
hehehe, poor america. I’d say by now even china is faster.
hail europe
Japan rocks blake with his 56K modem
These reports make the US look like it’s so far behind other countries in broadband, but it all depends on how you look at it. While many countries may have 95% coverage, they are also have a much higher population density. Why would anyone want to run fiber out in the back country? It would be a complete waste of money. Not to say that there aren’t solutions for those out there though. Wireless connections have been popping up, but there just isn’t enough demand to improve coverage or speeds for it as well as satalite.
The US definitely lacks in speed though. Right now the best (widely available) internet comes from Verizon at 50mbit, but that’s still only in big cities, although they’ve been deploying the system remarkably fast.
I’m always looking for more speed, but IMO downloading with two bridged 10/2.5 connections for $30 a month is still pretty fast these days. (Though I’m guessing my opinion will change once I start downloading HD rips.)
sweden 100/100 MB fiber connection. 52 US Dollars a month. Piratebay. Isnt the world great
I live in Latvia and I have 100mbit download/100mbit upload (my country) and 35mbit download/8mbit upload (all countries), only 25 USD
Latvia is in 3rd place on http://www.speedtest.net after Japan (newest technologies) and Sweden
@audio: Yes, and that is the key. Having 100/100 and not getting close to that is pretty much useless.
yes cry for us terribly poor Americans please send us cash aid so we Americans can afford super broadband so we can illegally download bluray and he DVDs in minutes. All 300 million of us cannot live without super fast Internet, we might all die
oh the humanity!!
What do you mean with broadband? As already said, most households here in Sweden can 24Mbs via DSL. 100Mbs is of course only available through direct wire in some residences, like students’ areas.
I actually live in Orange County, CA. I pay $57 a month for 12/1 service (Cox cable). Sometimes it’s faster, sometimes slower. I used to use torrents a lot before I discovered Rapidshare and Orbit download manager. I wouldn’t mind paying less, but overall I’m please with the speed in which I can steal movies, software, etc.
OMG. You mean the study shows people with more money are more likely to have pcs than those who are poor?
The ironic part is that if people actually USE those speeds to download larger files, they’ll be hit with usage restrictions.
“Hi! Here’s your new, faster internet that can download a movie in seconds. Don’t use it!”
I live in cali. They are rolling fiber out here in l.a. county. 15 up/down @ $50.
South-korea provides 100/100 to all citizens… as far as I have heard =/
Uhh. 10Mbps thats low we got here in the Netherlands all a couple of years 20Mbps so whats is the news????
In the UK, most people have a ‘theoretical’ maximum of 8meg DSL lines, and for these you pay £25+ ($50+).
You also have to dig deep to find out a company’s contention ratio.
I only get about 5meg max, and a crappy 1/4 meg upload.
No one has high speed fibre optic here, except big business…
UK sucks…. =(
Only reason anyone is pushing broadband is the higher usage fee. Average user watches maybe a couple YouTube videos a day at most and still pays premium for no reason. Broadband as a whole is useless unless you’re a pirate or an anime fan and they’re trying hard to get rid of the pirates
Then the companies have the nerve to complain how some users actually use bandwidth and threaten to charge them more for it
Worthless study
@klark kent (#13), uhm … where did I compare Sweden’s population to the US’s?
And since you like comparisons:
Sweden GDP (2006 Estimate): $384,388 M
USA GDP (2007 estimate:) $13,675,129 M
Sweden population density: 20/km2
New York population density: 155.18/km2
im from finland and here our government has a plan to have high speed broadband connections available to anyone (meaning 10/10, 100/100) in 2010 (or 2012, cant remember).
nowadays i have 24/1 ADSL2 connection which is 43,9€(63,11$)/month, no restrictions. It sounds high priced after reading all this posts but here in Finland it’s cheap price.
100/100 is becoming pretty usual speed here in southern Finland as it has become available from all the main ISPs but the optic fiber network aint so spread yet.
There has been some studies to get 100/100 from the basic powerlines here.
As it comes to wireless networks, we have HSDPA networks which makes it possible to have 2mbit broadband.
Theres atleast two other wireless networks on the making, one which I got to test through my girlfriends dad who works at one electric reading company, that one had 1mbit adsl (most likely the lowest speed) from anywhere through this box which was connected to usb port (i heard there was version which was connected to laptop expresscard slot).
And at my army time I was at finlands network study center where i got LAN course (i was sergeant) and our course leader told about this wireless network which was in the making and when ready should have pretty high speeds and very good connectivity (talking about our lapland where you are lucky if u have even phonelines)
fastest residential broadband in Australia that i know of its 24Mbps, which isn’t too bad.
I live in Sweden and we got fiber LAN in our apartmentblocks..100/100 and 100/10 with broadband-tv, IP-phone and it works klockrent as we say in sweden..perfect that is
Now if only Verizon or Surewest started laying fiber lines in my area…
You know id never know it being here, cus honestly i miss my internet at home.