It's been a little over a year since I last commented on the sorry state of the Internet in the U.S. as compared to other countries. Things are not improving; we are still not ranked in the top 10 of countries using the Internet. A lot of the reason is the failure of the communications companies to live up to their commitments.
By last year the companies were to have switched us from copper wiring to fiber optic cable which would provide at least 45mbps coming and going. Today Verizon and AT&T have done so for 7,000,000 of their 120,000,000 customers. And as for speed, how's our 5-6 mbps per second versus Hong Kong's 1,000? Despite the poor performance, AT&T is still installing copper wiring and Verizon has stopped deploying FIOS.
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