68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband

An anonymous reader writes "The FCC has published a new 87-page report titled 'Internet Access Services: Status as of December 31, 2009 (PDF).' The report explains that 68 percent of connections in the US advertised as 'broadband' can't really be considered as such because they fall below the agency's most recent minimum requirement: 4Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. In other words, more than two-thirds of broadband Internet connections in the US aren't really broadband; over 90 million people in the US are using a substandard broadband service. To make matters worse, 58 percent of connections don't even reach downstream speeds above 3Mbps. The definition of broadband is constantly changing, and it's becoming clear that the US is having a hard time keeping up."

Re:Meanwhile, in Japan

[pecosdave]

Bet the streaming tenticle porn is great!

In my day we used 14.4kbps dial-up modems...

[digitaldc]

...while waiting for a home page to load, and we LIKED IT!

Re:Meanwhile, in Japan

[Chrisq]

Congratulations, you successfully managed to ignore population density.

Area per head or area per unit mass? It makes a big difference when comparing America and Japan.

I've been saying it for years

[dontmakemethink]

Considering the hugely lopsided ratio of female pr0n versus male, 'broadband' is a very inappropriate term, it should be called 'dudeband'.