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Fixed-broadband access refers to high-speed fixed (wired) access to the public Internet at downstream speeds equal to, or greater than, 256 kbit/s. This includes satellite Internet access, cable modem, DSL, fibre-to-the-home/building, and other fixed (wired) broadband subscriptions. The totals are measured irrespective of the method of payment.
National Broadband Plan (United States) Connecting America: The National Broadband Plan is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plan to improve Internet access in the United States. The FCC was directed to create the plan by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, and unveiled its plan on March 16, 2010. [1]
This is a sortable list of broadband internet connection speed by country, ranked by Speedtest.net data for March 2024, [1] and with M-Lab data for June 2023 [2] Country/Territory Median
In 2019, the United States ranked 3rd in the world for the number of internet users (behind China and India), with 312.32 million users. [ 3 ] As of 2019, 90% of adults in America use the internet, either irregularly or frequently. [ 4 ] The United States ranks #1 in the world with 7,000 Internet Service Providers (ISPs) according to the CIA. [ 5 ]
Broadband mapping in the United States. Broadband maps indicate service availability over geographic space. This historical map of California counties in 2011 suggests there is greater availability in large urban metro areas such as Los Angeles and San Francisco. Broadband mapping in the United States are efforts to describe geographically how ...
Below is a sortable list of countries by number of Internet users as of 2024. Internet users are defined as persons who accessed the Internet in the last 12 months from any device, including mobile phones. [ Note 1 ] Percentage is the percentage of a country's population that are Internet users. Estimates are derived either from household ...
The Government Broadband Index (gBBi) is a report compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit that assesses countries on the basis of government planning, as opposed to current broadband capability. With ambitious targets for both the speed and coverage of next-generation broadband networks, the developed countries of East Asia scored highest ...
Of them, about 2 billion would be from developing countries, including 89 million from least developed countries. [1][2] According to Hootsuite, the number of Global Internet users has already reached almost 5 billion, or about 53% of the global population as of 2021. [3] The flat world of information has been created thanks to the Internet and ...