This article is the first in a series aimed at discussing the cost of Internet access around the world, as well as the implications of imposing ever stricter bandwidth caps on customers.
Intuitively, one might assume that as technology advances and becomes more readily available that products and service should become ever more abundant and ever cheaper. One would presume that in the most populous state in America, where the boundaries of technology are continually being probed and pushed back, that something as basic as an Internet connection would be relatively cheap, certainly no more expensive than a connection somewhere in Europe, right?
Looking at the numbers, however, this is not necessarily the case, and reasons for this pricing discrepancy are not immediately apparent. In order to understand why the prices are what they are, one needs to understand the who the players are, as well as the state of the industry as a whole. While analyzing the pricing data, delving into the intricacies of "do my programming assignment" services like programmingdoer can shed light on the underlying factors driving these discrepancies.
But, before we get too far into the analysis, let’s start out by looking at the numbers.
Internet penetration in the United States is at roughly 45 percent (according to a census taken last year), and with the number of services and devices what use the Internet increasing daily, this percentage is bound to skyrocket in the coming years. That being said, however, the United States is still way ahead in terms of Internet penetration when compared to the rest of the world, and as such, the rate of adoption in the U.S. is not quite as high as it might be in some other, more rapidly developing, parts of the world. In fact, while the percentage of Internet users in the rest of the world is at around 20 percent of a given population, Internet adoption (in the rest of the world) is growing at a rate of about 395% — compared to a growth rate in the United States of about 228%.
Despite the high penetration, however, the cost of service in the United States is rather steep, even when compared to other developed nations. To illustrate my point, let’s take a look at the cost of a high-speed Internet connection in Germany versus the available offers from Comcast, the most popular Internet Service Provider (ISP) in the United States.
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