{"id":3182,"date":"2013-07-25T05:08:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T05:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/u-s-slips-to-9th-in-internet-speed\/"},"modified":"2013-07-25T05:08:21","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T05:08:21","slug":"u-s-slips-to-9th-in-internet-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/u-s-slips-to-9th-in-internet-speed\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. slips to 9th in Internet speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"cnn_strycntntlft\">\n<!--startclickprintexclude--><\/p>\n<div class=\"cnn_stryimg640captioned\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/6cfff__120710115627-because-of-the-internet-story-top.jpg\" alt=\"Internet connection speeds in the United States rank behind those in countries like Latvia, Netherlands and Czech Republic.\" border=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\"\/><\/div>\n<div class=\"cnn_stryimg640caption\">\n<div class=\"cnn_strycaptiontxt\">Internet connection speeds in the United States rank behind those in countries like Latvia, Netherlands and Czech Republic.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"em0\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"cnn_strylftcntnt\">\n<div class=\"cnn_strylctcntr\">\n<ul class=\"cnn_bulletbin cnnStryHghLght\"><!--google_ad_section_start--><\/p>\n<li>Report says United States has 9th-fastest Internet speed in the world<\/li>\n<li>That&#8217;s down from 8th last year, as the U.S. is leapfrogged by Sweden<\/li>\n<li>Geography, population, industry are factors<\/li>\n<li>South Korea has fastest connections, 60% quicker than United States<\/li>\n<p><!--google_ad_section_end-->\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--endclickprintexclude--><!--google_ad_section_start--><!--startclickprintinclude--><\/p>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong> &#8212; Land of the free. Home of the brave. Bastion of mediocre Internet speeds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph2\">Already getting clobbered by countries like South Korea and Japan, the United States is close to falling out of the top 10 nations in terms of Internet-connection speeds, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph3\">The United States fell from 8th to 9th after being passed by Sweden in the first quarter of this year, according to networking firm Akamai&#8217;s quarterly <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.akamai.com%2Fstateoftheinternet%2F\" target=\"_blank\">State of the Internet report<\/a>. Akamai handles about one-third of the world&#8217;s Web traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph4\">The other countries with quicker Web connections than the United States? Hong Kong, Switzerland, Netherlands, Latvia and the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph5\"><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2010%2FTECH%2F03%2F31%2Fbroadband.south.korea%2Findex.html\" target=\"_blank\">Why Internet connections are fastest in South Korea<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph6\">The slip comes despite average U.S. speeds going up 27% from the same time last year, according to Akamai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph7\">In some ways, the United States is at a disadvantage when it comes to fast connections. Its sprawling size and hefty population can make building efficient broadband networks a challenge. But critics argue that a relative lack of competition among service providers also hurts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph8\">Susan Crawford, a tech policy analyst and professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City, argues that Internet access should be a public utility like gas, electricity and water because it has become just as essential.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph9\">In her book, &#8220;Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly in the New Guilded Age,&#8221; she says a lack of regulation in the Unites States has allowed a small number of companies to dominate the broadband market, meaning consumers have fewer choices and pay higher prices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph10\">&#8220;In Seoul, when you move into an apartment, you have a choice of three or four providers selling you symmetric fiber access for $  30 per month, and installation happens in one day,&#8221;<a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fbusiness.time.com%2F2013%2F01%2F09%2Fis-broadband-internet-access-a-public-utility%2F%23ixzz2ZzGGLAhY\" target=\"_blank\"> Crawford told TIME<\/a> earlier this year. &#8220;That&#8217;s unthinkable in the United States. And the idea that the country that invented the Internet can&#8217;t get online is beyond my imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph11\">Akamai reported that the average Web connection in the United States was 8.6 megabytes per second. South Korea&#8217;s average was 14.2 megabytes per second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph12\">Of course, some folks in the United States have it better than others. In some regions of the country, residents still don&#8217;t even have basic connections to high-speed Internet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph13\">But if you live or work in Vermont, you&#8217;re in pretty good shape. Average speeds there are 12.7 megabytes per second &#8212; meaning connections in the Green Mountain State are, on average, faster than Japan&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cnn_storypgraphtxt cnn_storypgraph14\">Looking for speedy Internet elsewhere in the U.S.? 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Report says United States has 9th-fastest Internet speed in the world That&#8217;s down from 8th last year, as the U.S. is leapfrogged by Sweden Geography, population, industry are factors South Korea has fastest connections, 60% quicker than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[852],"tags":[334,994,939,251],"class_list":["post-3182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-internet","tag-slips","tag-speed","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}