USA, USA, USA: America's 4G Network Is Ranked 62nd 'Best' In The World (Behind Macedonia)
Content adapted from this Zerohedge.com article : Source
When it comes to technology, the United States infrastructure lags way behind.
The country that has Facebook, Apple, Google, and Microsoft ranks far down the list when it comes to 4G and Broadband download speed according to Statista.
The United States does place well in the 4G availability rankings. U.S. mobile users are on 4G 90% of the time, ranking 5th in the world.
This shows that companies focused on building out their networks as compared to investing in higher speed equipment.
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This is a very misleading statistic because it doesn't take into account population density. It takes a lot of money to cover the entire United States in cell coverage. I would guess that around half of the US population lives in more rural areas. Those people will drag the average down.
And I thought nothing can surprise me. Not that we are not in top 10, but being even behind Macedonia? I hope our president does what he promised to do. $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending bill. I just hope it passes. With all the debt trouble why not increase it even more, it just can’t get any worse. Thanks for you post, it’s alway very informative.
Yeah, this surprised me as well!
Not sure if anything can be done about the debt trouble anymore though...
of course Macedonia is less than 10,000 square miles an the US is 3.8 million.
It's behind
South Korea (96.69%), Japan (94.11%), Norway and Hong Kong with an availability rate of 86.94%. Keep in mind that availability does not necessarily mean coverage. If the region is known to have a bad LTE signal and users avoid it, the coverage gap is not calculated in this measure. Moreover, the United States was not much more than the first four markets on this list.
It's a whole different story when it comes to the average speed of 4G networks. The United States is ranked 61 with an average speed of 13.98 Mbps. Singapore is ranked at an average speed of 46.64 Mbps, while South Korea is second with an average speed of 45.85 Mbps and Norway is in third place with an average speed of 42.03 Mbps.
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Based on my experience I’m not surprised that 4G LTE networks in America is soo behind. Even though as painfully slow It is I hope in some way it gets better. There are already talks about 5G network. As a matter of fact U.S. Government considering creation of nationwide 5G Network which could definitely improve our rank in the world. The United States federal government is said to be looking to build a “centralized” 5G wireless network across the country within the next three years.
See how painfully slow 4G LTE is in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world
@zerohedge..bro This is an old principal. Many second world states had nearly zero telecom (copper/pots) coming out of communism and their first infrastructure expense was cell towers.
They didn’t have anything old to be backwards compatible with nor were they bringing costs forward related to obsolete but still expensive technology.Your argument does not hold water. Look at Canada for not densely populated and speed.
I live out in the sticks in Canada and my home internet is 175mbps. Just tested cell speed at 91.3mbps. OK there is a tower I can see out my front window..thank you for sharing with us..
That's an interesting fact considering we're always touted as being leaders in technology.
@Zer0hedge, Whatever measurements they are using here are completely wrong.
My friend says, I moved a few months ago from LA, USA to Wellington, NZ and the reception and internet here is awful.
Some of my friends still are having issues connecting internet in their new rentals, and its been months.
Fios with very limited areas. Cellphone service black outs in areas.
Whoever wrote this article needs to crunch those numbers again. lol
But logically folks, USA, worse then a fairly small island like NZ North Island??? don't be so gullible on these articles.
ZH step it up, you're becoming a tabloid venue.
America's 4G Network getting ranked 62nd 'Best' In The World speaks for itself as users are always complaining of very slow download speed. 4G in the US is so slow compared what the consumers get in those countries that are ranked above it. This I believe is attributed to US networks getting a lot of traffic and yet they have to cover large geographic areas. It's a surprise having countries like Norway, Hungary ranking above US.. This shows how countries have chosen to prioritise building out mobile infratructure yet they had over the years been lagging behind the world on fixed internet structure.