Facts about the high-speed internet in the U.S. - June 2006

This report summarizes information about internet access connections in service to end user locations that are advertised to deliver information to and/or from the end user – that is, in at least one direction – at transfer rates (“speeds”) above 200 kilobits per second (kbps). Information is collected about connections in several sub-groupings (“speed tiers”) defined by ranges of upstream speeds and downstream speeds. Connections are further categorized by the technology employed by the part of the connection that terminates at the end-user location.