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The FCC says that American Internet access still really stinks
If you’ve complained about your Internet access or speeds in the United States this past year, you’re not alone — the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) agrees with you, and just failed the country on its annual deployment test. Earlier this week, the FCC determined that 34 million Americans, or around 10 percent of the nation, “still lack access to fixed broadband at the FCC’s benchmark speed of 25Mbps for downloads, 3Mbps for uploads.” And that really, really sucks.
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The really sad part is, internet providers had until July last year to install fiber optics to rural areas financed by the stimulus. Cables have been laid in most rural areas, however the stimulus did not demand hook-ups, so the cables lie there............ unused.