*Source: News.com (
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9745926-7.html)*
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An ever-popular lament among U.S. politicians and regulators (
http://news.com.com/U.S.+broadband+A...3-5517695.html) in recent years is that the nation is falling behind its foreign counterparts in delivering widespread broadband access to its citizens.
For instance, the latest oft-quoted statistics compiled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ranked the United States 15th (
http://www.oecd.org/document/7/0,334...tml# Data2005) out of 30 as of last December, with 19.6 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants and more than 58 million total subscribers.
But a new paper (PDF) (
http://www.phoenix-center.org/pcpp/PCPP29Final.pdf) by a Washington think tank challenges the assertion that the United States is doing so poorly.
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