Study Finds U.S. Internet Infrastructure Fourth Worldwide
While improvement is always needed the state of U.S. infrastructure isn’t as gloomy as some would have you think:
The Global Information Technology Report issued on Wednesday found that the United States now ranked fourth in the world behind just three European nations: Denmark, Sweden and Switzerland. Last year the United States was ranked seventh.
The study, which has been issued annually for the last seven years, is an effort to draw a more complete picture of national network readiness.
The study was done by Insead, the business school near Paris, on behalf of the World Economic Forum, a policy and conference group based in Switzerland. It used an index generated from 68 variables including market factors, political and regulatory environment and technology infrastructure rather than just bandwidth capacity and data transmission speeds.
One odd aspect of the internet in the U.S. is many people still use dial-up. That’s probably due to people’s perception of price versus value.
The study should give pause to those who want government action to force competition in broadband markets.
“Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet“
Funny: I was thinking “We’re _4th_?!? I demand government action.” But if you think that there’s anything that we should be 4th in, by all means let’s keep doing what we’re doing.