94.3% of U.S. Zip Codes Broadband Enabled
Posted on January 11th, 2005 by Dennis Little
According to a news post on Slashdot about recently released FCC statistics, 94.3% of U.S. zip codes have broadband available to them. What does that mean exactly? It turns out that the statistic means nothing.
To understand this outrageously useless statistic, one must understand that the FCC considers one home that can get broadband within a zip code to indicate that the ENTIRE zip code is ’serviced’. This has got to be one of the most asinine statistics I have ever been witness to. I don’t even want to know how much they pay the guy that came up with that one.
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