Americans are paying high prices for slower Internet speeds compared...
Americans are paying high prices for slower Internet speeds compared to their international peers, said a report by the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute released Monday (http://bit.ly/1buL296). OTI compared eight American cities including Kansas City, Kan., and Kansas City,…
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Mo., to 16 cities around the world for their residential high-speed Internet services. Over the past year, mobile and wireline offerings advanced more internationally than domestically with international service providers now generally offering higher speeds at much lower prices, said the report. The availability of residential services remained limited in 2013 with only some portions of Kansas City receiving Google Fiber services and limited Verizon FiOS availability, said OTI. Pricing remained the same in cities with municipal broadband networks with the exception of local municipal provider EPB in Chattanooga, which lowered the price of its 1 Gbps connection from $349 a month to $70 a month in September, said the report. Mobile data plans offered more options, high caps and cheaper plans in international cities compared to 2012. Mobile broadband in the U.S. is not a viable alternative to wireline at this time because of “the combination of high costs, slower and more unreliable speeds and restrictive data caps,” said the report.