28.35

USA

39.89

Swiss

32.48

Canada

The Pot Holes on the Road to Faster Broadband Speeds

The Pot Holes on the Road to Faster Broadband Speeds

Alcatel Lucem’s Bell Lab recently broke a record successfully transmitting data at broadband speeds of 10 GBPS over 30 meters of traditional phone lines and 1GBPS over 70 meters.

allowed cable companies and

telecoms companies to simply divide markets and

merge their way to monopoly, allowing them to charge customers higher and higher prices without the kind of investment in internet infrastructure

like fiber optics for example.

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Healthy competition between internet service providers in other countries have granted consumers with faster access to broadband connections at much lower costs when compared to

the United States.

%of population that uses high-speed

internet

It’s been over a hundred years since Alexander Graham Bell first twisted

copper pairs together and since then, they have remained a staple of telecommunication technology.

Research labs continue to optimize the utility of

copper lines which enables Telco companies to avert the cost of implementing

new technology.

Average Cost of Internet in USA

$300 per Month D 500 / U 500

*Verison FIOS with a 2 year agreement

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1996 Telecommunications Act