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There’s no way to be polite about the state of US broadband. Study after study has shown that the country is falling behind not only other developed nations, but is now lagging developing countries as well. Free Press has published a report that sticks it to the incumbent-backed sock puppet think tank industry that wants people to believe that everything’s just fine. There’s no way to be polite about the state of US broadband. Study after study has shown that…

An Australian research company has challenged the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s reports of global broadband statistics that showed Australia and the U.S. sorely trailing other developed nations.An Australian research company has challenged the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development’s(OECD) reports of global broadband statisticsthat showed Australia and the U.S. sorely trailing other developed nations.

Market Clarity called the OECD’s statistics “inaccurate” due to “non-comparable source data.” Muni deployments were evidently not counted by the OECD.

The Australian company said it…

Troubling new data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development show the U.S. continues to lose its competitive edge in the growth and use of broadband, making the case for a national broadband policy all the more compelling.The OECD data exposes a troubling neglect of a situation that is grave and growing worse. OECD data has tracked a steep decline in the growth and consequent use of broadband in the United States since 2001 when it ranked fourth in…