The National Broadband Map, updated for the sixth...
The National Broadband Map, updated for the sixth time on Monday, shows more work needs to be done to build advanced, high-capacity telecommunications networks, said Anne Neville, NTIA State Broadband Initiative director, in a blog post (http://1.usa.gov/15B2o5d). As of the…
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end of 2012, nearly 99 percent of Americans had access to broadband speeds of 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream through wireline or wireless service, said Neville. Ninety-six percent of Americans had access to broadband speeds that will soon be considered a “basic requirement for accessing many online services” of 6 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream, said Neville. Nearly 90 percent of Americans had access to 4G wireless broadband, defined as a service with download speeds of at least 6 Mbps, which is up from 81 percent in June 2012 and just under 26 percent in June 2010, said Neville. Of the 2,083 providers in the updated data set, 1,618 offer broadband speeds of 3 Mbps downstream and 768 kbps upstream and 1,018 offer broadband speeds of 6 Mbps downstream and 1.5 Mbps upstream, said Neville. Two hundred providers offer 100-megabit connections, said Neville. The number of Americans with access to fiber grew from just above 20 percent in June 2012 to just above 23 percent at the end of 2012, and 6.7 percent of Americans have gigabit connections in their neighborhoods, said Neville. The National Broadband Map saw a significant broadband gap between urban and rural communities, with nearly all urban communities (99.6 percent) with access to download speeds of at least 10 Mbps compared to nearly 84 percent of rural communities, said Neville.