Access Facts 10

1. In Coffeeville Alabam High school students only have computer access at their high school.
2. 60% of rural America use broadband Internet. 10% less than urban America.
3. 28% of americans do not use Internet at all.
4. Pushing America’s digital expansion is a point of emphasis for President Obama, who on Thursday night held a private meeting with Silicon Valley’s elite, including Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, and Carol Bartz, president and chief executive of Yahoo. His administration has given $7.2 billion in stimulus money toward the effort, including the map, which took five years and $200 million to develop and shows a number of discrepancies in the quality and availability of broadband access between rural and urban communities.
5. Broadband Internet speeds in the United States are only about one-fourth as fast as those in South Korea
6. U.S. Internet connections are more expensive than those in South Korea
7. U.S. costs about $45.50 per month on average, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. In South Korea, the much-faster hookup costs $17 per month less
8. In the U.S., competition among companies that provide broadband connections is relatively slim. Most people choose between a cable company and a telephone company when they sign up for Internet service.
9. the U.S. government pushes forward with a "broadband plan" that aims to speed up connections, reduce costs and increase access to the Internet, especially in rural areas.
10. There are stark cultural differences between hyper-connected Korea, where more than 94 percent of people have high-speed connections, according to the OECD, and the United States, where only about 65 percent of people are plugged into broadband, according to an FCC survey.


By reading the article on CNN and gathering information I notice that the  percentage of other countries that have internet are more than us. In the article on CNN it basically stated that the U.S invented the internet, so how come the whole country does not have access to the internet. It is actually quite confusing as to why and unclear why our country is so behind in having internet access when out country invented the internet. Although the U.S is pushing to extend its broadband connection amoung rural and urban parts of America it is actually expected that the percent will increase in around five years from now. However if nothing is really done by then, the U.S is facing a serious problem.