USTelecom Finds Fixed Broadband Almost Universally Available, With 84% Having 2 Options
USTelecom painted a positive picture of U.S. wireline broadband availability. "As of mid-2016, 96 percent of Americans had at least one wired broadband network platform available to them, and 84 percent had at least two wired options," said a report…
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Friday analyzing FCC data. It said 65 percent of households had access to at least two wired 10/1 Mbps service options, and 49 percent had access to at least two 25/3 Mbps service options -- those data speeds are FCC broadband definitions, in effect, for rural areas and urban/suburban areas, respectively. "The increasingly competitive state of broadband availability is the result of substantial capital investments by broadband providers in a dynamic, evolving market," said a release.