This article, and the so called 'study' is about as useful as a Facebook poll. A couple of key points: "Every American should have affordable access to high-s

This article, and the so called 'study' is about as useful as a Facebook poll. A couple of key points: "Every American should have affordable access to high-speed Internet, no matter where they live. This is essential to economic growth and will help maintain our global competitiveness," This is utter crap. There is no reason to run fiber to rural areas where providers lose money. If you care that much about your network speed move to an area that supports the speed you need. They talk about so called gains. But their study is non-scientific so comparing their numbers from year to year is meaningless. They included some territories and not others. Something those territories have in common is that they are islands. It costs alot more to run cable to them, therefore they are naturally going to have slower network speeds. The so called data comes from 'Speed Matters, a site that promotes greater Internet speeds', so the author is basing this article on numbers that come from someone with an agenda and no science. Nice bit of writing. If I were this guy's editor I'd fire him for being to lazy to go out and track down the real numbers and come up with a real story.