Why 23 million Americans don't have fast internet

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High-speed internet service is lacking in much of rural America. The causes are complicated, but non-competitive cable markets, misguided government funding, and infrastructural obstacles have limited expansion up until now. Despite the troubles, some rural Americans are receiving internet via both wireless and wireline systems, but the internet service many receive falls short of the 25mbps up/3mbps down set by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015 during the Obama Administration. Receiving that level of service typically requires a wireline connection provided by fiber optic cable, which many rural residents don't have because the remote territories that would be served are hard to reach and require massive investments that private cable companies like Verizon, AT&T, and Comcast aren't willing to make. If service is available, it is often much more expensive than similar service in urban markets. An idea for solving the problem might be to adopt the funding model similar to the one that helped expand rural electrification during the presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. At that time, the government paid local electric cooperatives willing to do the work to provide electricity in their communities. Unlike electrification, there are many models for broadband deployment, including cooperatives, but also municipal broadband, private companies and other public-private partnerships. If Trump's government plans to spend more money on rural broadband, then following the model of electrification might help correct some of the funding troubles that have plagued broadband expansion up to this point.

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[james]

"How does this make you feel?"
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[madmanmania]

The slowest internet there in America is the fastest here in the Philippines

[Phlegethon]

"As education moves online" in 2020 as everything moved online overnight.

[JameZayer]

When wasting food you say "An African could have eaten that."
When wasting internet, you say "An Australian could have used that broadband."

[elliot]

I feel sorry for kids tryna home learn during corona with no/terrible WiFi

[smilessister]

That loading circle makes me wonder if I should do anger management classes

[jocaleb]

Half of Maine doesn’t have cell towers so imagine living without data

[damienc]

Living on the edge with 0.1 mbps here in australia

[kombi]

sits next to router

*takes all day to update an app*

you know the struggles...

[PandoraDaFoxx]

"Trump is outlining new broadband infrastructure plans."

Oh hey, that's actually pretty co--

"But he screwed it up."

Ooooof course he did

[Nubbe]

98% of households in sweden has fast internet. Average internet speed are going up every year and are closing in fast to 100 mbps in average.

[keitatsutsumi]

The beginning of this video has been one of the most stressful I have seen

[ailurii]

This video suddenly really makes me feel grateful for getting to live in an area where everyone can get wifi. And then I realize America is really lucky for its problem getting to be slow wifi, instead of poverty or famine.

[ArpanDe]

Are you kidding, i saw this video on 144 p with 0.1 mbps internet speed

[Andrew-onzy]

0:21 "Internet in nashville tenesse might not be as fast as it would be in NS, kansas" yet Kansas is the one thats buffering...

[ianma]

advertised for 60mbps, runs at 6 mbps. welcome to atnt

[Kavothizzlafduxbfd]

Why 24 million Australians don't have fast internet (entire population)

[thomasfieschi-rose]

5:24 ONE He does realize that 1, 000, 000, 000, 000 is almost 1/19 of the US GDP, right?

[fireclaner]

Paying $35 for 500kb supposed to be "high speed"
I hate west virginia

[WoogieKamikaze]

Rural Nebraska. 1.2mb down .1mb up. Oftentimes doesn't work. I truly hate my isp. 170$ a month for this crap internet. The school doesn't have internet, medicade isn't accepted around here and sometimes you can get 3G roaming on your phones if your lucky.