Plus how many of those 62% are members of households that do have broadband? How many have access at work? I travel to towns of all sizes and geographic distribution and have yet to find one without public high speed access, usually for free. The only problem I've had was one cybercafe in Berkeley where the only box available had an OS in Korean. I didn't understand everything the folks there were saying, but I'm pretty sure they were ganging up on me at Unreal Tournament.

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So, according to that article, 80% of Americans have access to broadband, if they want it

Two comments about that:

• what is considered "broadband" in the US is considered laughably slow and outdated in places like Japan (you can get 22 megabits/sec for about $22 a month in Japan)
• in the US, "access to broadband" means "there is at least one location in this zipcode that can have broadband", hardly a fair and accurate measure.

Thanks you for injecting numbers that have some actual relevance to an intelligent discussion. There is a real groupthink idea that everyone simply has to pay to have broadband access regardless of every other factor. If you are a shareholder in a cable or phone company that might qualify as a good idea but not so good if you are interested in the best allocation of your own resources.

Internet access is not some absolute good that reason dictates everyone must maximize. How much downloaded music, porn and

do you know the difference of the definition of "broadband" in US and China??? In china it is generally 3 - 20 Mbps but in US 1 - 3 Mbps is already a modest service