A Tired Theme

For those of you disappointed with your broadband provider’s false promises and poor download speeds, spare a thought for your confederate cousins across the pond.

The US broadband market has reached a virtual standstill in terms of product development, with take-up now at a seven year low. In fact, adoption in the first quarter of 2008 was the lowest on record since broadband was introduced to the 50 states (and one district).

What’s more, it’s likely to take the US 101 years to catch-up with the future facing broadband networks of Japan and South Korea if they continue to develop their broadband technologies at a snail’s pace.

The average US netspeed is 2.3Mbps, which would rank second last on the recently published Broadband Choices ultimate speed league table. Taking my cue from accumulated Broadband Choices speed test data, i’d say the UK is currently enjoying/bemoaning an average netspeed of 3.4Mbps by comparison.

Who’s at the bottom of our table? America Online of course.