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Re:Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC sugg... by _delirium on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @09:57PM (#14975664)
> That inner city population skews much poorer than the metro area as a whole, with a quarter of households making under $25,000 annually. That notwithstanding the city itself is very well wired. If you live in Anacostia (one of the poorest neighborhoods) you can choose from two gigabit fiber providers and two gigabit cable providers.

Ah so the internet is good in theory, it's only in practice that internet connectivity is poor.

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Re:Americans don’t need fast home Internet service, FCC sugg... by rayiner on Wednesday August 09, 2017 @10:11PM (#14975740)
No in practice the Internet is great (see the Akamai stats above). And at least for fiber the price is comparable (see my edit above). The US just has more income inequality, and segregated poor people into inner cities. While lamentable, that is an orthogonal issue that has nothing to do with broadband policy.
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