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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…

Whatever happened to Al Gore’s Information Superhighway? Apparently, the fast lane isn’t being laid out for Americans. Swedes, Koreans, Japanese and the French have, on the average, faster broadband. And the average US upload speed: 371 Kbps. “The average broadband download speed in the US is only 1.9 megabits per second, compared to 61 Mbps in Japan, 45 Mbps in South Korea, 18 Mbps in Sweden, 17 Mpbs in France, and 7 Mbps in Canada” and “the average upload speed…