If you are wondering just how well your own Internet connection stacks up against others, the question is actually pretty easy to answer if you live in the United States: your connection is likely small broadband.
It is also probably slower and more expensive than you will need very soon. This Google chart shows where the U.S. ranks in upload speeds among a few countries, and it’s not very pretty.
High-quality broadband services are a key infrastructure piece for this information-focused century. If creating and sharing information defines our jobs, we need to be able to upload it faster than most of us can today.
Where We Should Be
When Congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the conference report
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