Question

Research online for the latest country rankings for broadband service. Where does the United States currently rank? Why do you think this is the case?​

Answer 1

Avg. Connection speed measure in Mb per second

Ranking of Year 2017
Rank	Country Name	Avg. Connection speed
1	South Korea	28.60
2	Norway	23.50
3	Sweden	22.50
4	Hong Kong	21.90
5	Switzerland	21.70
6	Finland	20.50
7	Singapore	20.30
8	Japan	20.20
9	Denmark	20.10
10	United States	18.70

Ranking of Year 2018
Rank	Country Name	Avg. Connection speed
1	Singapore	60.39
2	Sweden	46.00
3	Denmark	43.99
4	Norway	40.12
5	Romania	38.60
6	Belgium	36.71
7	Netherlands	35.95
8	Luxembourg	35.14
9	Hungary	34.01
10	Jersey	30.90
11	Switzerland	29.92
12	Japan	28.94
13	Latvia	28.63
14	Taiwan	28.09
15	Estonia	27.91
16	Spain	27.19
17	Lithuania	27.17
18	Andorra†	27.14
19	Hong Kong	26.45
20	United States	25.86

As per above report, United States rank goes down from 10 to 20 compared to previous year.

United states become example of Internet infrastructure gone wrong

Small and densely populated countries like South Korea are shining examples of Internet infrastructure done properly.

United States’ lower rankings compared to other country. It is complicated, but the country’s relatively huge size is a definite contributor.

It is easier to deliver a uniformly fast Internet in a smaller nation with fewer people and smaller land mass.

Note that positive momentum in efforts to improve local Internet speeds in the U.S., with another round of new improvement projects scattered around the country

There is several factor affect such economic, political factors.

Reason the United States lags many countries in both speed and affordability due to economic policy problem — the lack of competition in the broadband industry.

Broadband industry market of united states is monopoly type market. Prices at monopoly or duopoly pricing are set by seller due to lack of competition.