It’s clear that the support for a national broadband plan is growing everyday. The FCC’s efforts to this end, supported by their new blog, Blogband, are underway and are only aided by reports like the one by CWA.
Their data show, among other things, that US broadband is strongest in the more densely populated states (their top four, DE, RI, NJ, and MA, are all served by Verizon). It’s also important to remember that U.S. deployments are very different than the countries we are often compared with.
Our own Link Hoewing has written in detail about this comparison but GigaOm’s Jordan Golson pointed out the population density of nations like South Korea and Japan (with 1,290 and 870 residents per square mile, respectively) make the comparisons to the U.S. (with a population density of 80 residents per square mile), in my view, like apples to watermelons.
Golson, makes the same point and says it’s “a lot easier (technically and fiscally) to get high-speed data when you don’t have residents flung across millions of square miles, like we do.”
Check out the report and GigaOm’s post – both deserve a good read as our national broadband plan is built and we seek ways to serve the underserved in our mostly rural nation.
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