PC Magazine - USA (2020-03)

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n 2019, the Federal Communications Commission put out its latest

Broadband Deployment Report. And as you’d expect from the government,

the document is dense—not an easy read at 331 pages. But right in the

introduction, it says this:

“The digital divide has narrowed substantially, and more Americans than ever

before have access to high-speed broadband. In the time since the

Commission’s last Broadband Deployment Report, the number of Americans

lacking a connection of at least 25 Mbps/3 Mbps (the Commission’s current

benchmark) has dropped from 26.1 million Americans at the end of 2016 to 21.3

million Americans at the end of 2017, a decrease of more than 18 percent.”

That is, apparently, nonsense. The estimation of 6.5 percent of the population of

the US who are unable to get broadband may actually be double that.

The Number of People Without

Broadband Is Double the

Government Estimate BY ERIC GRIFFITH

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