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District pays a lot per broadband bit
Posted: Oct. 6, 2010 | Tags: broadband, Connected, economy, net neutrality
Washingtonians get less bang for their broadband buck than every state in the nation except Alaska, according to a survey released Tuesday.
District subscribers don’t pay much per month ($43.72, fifth when compared to the 50 states) but when you add connection speeds to the equation, it’s a different story.
The median monthly cost for broadband in the District was $11.93 per megabit per second (Mbs), according to Ookla, the Seattle-based technology company that conducted the survey. That’s nearly double the national median cost of $6.13 Mbps.
Megabits per second is a measure of ...