US Broadband Ranks Higher Internationally in Fixed Than in Mobile Download Speeds
U.S. broadband download speeds ranked higher for fixed than for mobile service among 28 countries examined, the FCC reported. The U.S. "ranked 10th in terms of actual [fixed] broadband speeds (55.07 Mbps) weighted by the number of tests in each…
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city" in 2016, up from "11th in 2015 (40.38 Mbps) and 15th (28.09 Mbps) in 2014," said a report in docket 17-199 mandated by the 2008 Broadband Data Improvement Act. It said the U.S. ranked 24th in actual mobile broadband speeds "in both 2016 (19.98 Mbps) and 2015 (15.58 Mbps)," after being 18th (12.62 Mbps) in 2014. U.S. prices for fixed and mobile broadband were among the more expensive, with various rankings in the bottom half of countries with available data, the report said. Also Friday, the agency issued a U.S. broadband deployment report (see 1802050002).