[SLL] Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband???

[debianuser]

I tend to disagree with the "consumer software spending"... Doesn't that exclude FOSS?

It also seems to be biased towards a capitalist perspective irrelevant to what the average citizen may find to be a productive use of their internet connection. It doesn't seem to incorporate any polls or studies of what people deem to be productive uses of their internet connections.

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/surprise-america-is-no-1-in-broadband/

"This was measured by comparing countries on five measures: The penetration of Internet use, penetration of Internet banking, wired and wireless voice minutes per capita, SMS messages per capita, and consumer software spending."



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