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Average download speeds by country below. This is a good indicator of the state of infrastructural development in each country. Once upon a time, the United States was the most developed country in the world. Now, we lag behind almost everybody.
In my opinion, this is an unacceptable report card. America gets an "F." We need legislative action to fix it immediately. What say you?
*All values in mbps
1. Hong Kong 72.06
2. Singapore 60.76
3. Romania 56.81
4. South Korea 51.70
5. Japan 42.24
6. Sweden 40.80
7. Lithuania 39.99
8. Andorra 39.84
9. Macau 39.83
10. Netherlands 39.35
11. Switzerland 38.82
12. Denmark 36.54
13. Taiwan 35.71
14. Luxemborg 34.22
15. Latvia 33.54
16. Iceland 32.21
17. Moldova 30.98
18. Bulgaria 29.09
19. Belgium 28.97
20. Norway 27.29
21. France 27.18
22. Finland 26.63
23. Germany 25.20
24. Portugal 24.95
25. Hungary 24.21
26. Estonia 24.17
27. Czech 23.70
28. UK 23.48
29. Aland 23.23
30. Liechtenstein 23.14
31. Israel 21.80
32. United States 21.48
33. Russia 21.28
36. Canada 20.29
44. China 16.76
87 Italy 7.78
**All data from ooka.com
No. What do you notice about all those countries on the list. Hint, when you think about public transit in this country verses other countries you begin to understand the magnitude of the faced by the internet service providers, though I will fully admit they have been at least in this country a bit slow to upgrade infrastructure and they want to switch people from paying for a pipe to paying for a bucket. But I digress. Its a bit more complicated then people first see.