Access to Broadband Is the New Access to Ports, Rail, Electricity

In the 21st century, a small business in Kansas City, Mo., has at least one very important thing in common with a small business in Seoul, Korea: Both have access to ultra high-speed Internet -- Kansas City via Google Fiber and Seoul on account of its government championing the rollout of fiber optic internet for over a decade.

Thats one way to look at Akamais quarterly "state of the internet" report, in which the content serving company samples requests to its own servers to reveal internet connectivity speeds all over the world.

As usual, countries with the most people with Internet connections faster than 10 megabits per second are the densely populated, rich economies of…
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