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America Offline
Reuters interactive showing which parts of the United States have limited broadband and are facing Post Office closures.
Interactive | Special Report: Towns go dark with Post Office closings
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FiOS dominates as FCC measures actual Internet speeds
For the first time ever, the FCC has collected data (PDF) showing real-world speeds that Americans receive from their Internet providers. And the news is pretty good! Or, perhaps, it’s pretty bad!
Advocacy group Free Press blasted the results, released today. “No matter how industry tries to put a positive spin on these results, the report shows conclusively that many Americans are simply not getting what they pay for,” said research director S. Derek Turner in a statement. “This study indicates Comcast, Cox, and Verizon FiOS largely perform well, but other companies like Cablevision, AT&T, MediaCom, and Frontier all fail to deliver their customers the quality of service promised.
“In every other industry, giving your customers less than what they paid for is a very serious offense. ISPs should be held to the same standard, no matter how much they try to spin their way out of it.”
» via ars technica
Ouch, sorry Cablevision users.
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Consumer broadband speeds in the U.S. The NTIA and the FCC created the interactive National Broadband Map to visualize data about high-speed Internet.
How might the proposed AT&T/T-Mobile merger affect the future of wireless broadband? Tune in right now to a Senate hearing with Sunlight Live.
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Which Schools Have the Best Broadband Connections?
Access to broadband at school gives teachers and students access to a wealth of online educational resources. With a quality broadband connection, students from rural areas, inner cities and the suburbs have equal access to the same educational tools.
To see which areas of the country have high quality broadband access, view the interactive Education Broadband Map.
ONA on Tumblr, awesome.
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The tipping point for dial-up to broadband adoption occurred somewhere between 2004 and 2005. (via @gabrielsnyder and Pew Internet)
