FCC Says Most American Broadband Connections … Aren’t
A report issued yesterday by the FCC says that most of the connections sold to Americans as “broadband” are actually too slow to qualify for the name. Rick Karr is a correspondent for PBS’s “Need to Know.” He speaks with us about why American broadband connections are lagging so badly behind those found in the rest of the world.
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