From the article: "We may not be a gigabit nation yet when it comes to
broadband, but the latest data from Akamai shows that the
the number of broadband connections over 10 Mbps — what Akamai dubs “high
broadband” has grown by 73 percent from the third quarter of 2011 to the third
quarter of 2012. The country has also see a 20 percent overall increase in
average speed to 7.2 Mbps over the past year, but the number of people
who have adopted broadband (measured at anything above 4 Mbps) was 62 percent,
which puts the U.S. at No. 12 in the worldwide rankings when it comes to
adoption and No. 9 when it comes to average speeds." Read more