[1st-mile-nm] New Mexico is slowest Internet in US

[Gary Gomes]

I neglected to mention that one New Mexico provider, CityLink Fiber, did get
a positive comment-

In the modern world of Internet service, two things go without saying: Fiber
optic <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335755,00.asp>  service is
dramatically faster, and satellite service is substantially slower. Our
results support these shocking statements. Among satellite services,
including industry leader HughesNet and competitors like WildBlue
<http://www.wildblue.com> , SurfSpeeds averaged just 145 kilobits per second
(Kbps). Taken as a whole, DSL and cable connections were more than five
times as fast. And fiber optic connections, including the well-publicized
Verizon FiOS and lesser-known regional carriers like Utah's Mstar
<http://www.mstar.net/technology/fiber-optics.php>  and New Mexico's
CityLink Fiber <http://www.citylinkfiber.com> , were 152 percent faster than
that. Clearly, if you can switch up, you should. The fiber market will only
grow, too, as companies install more and more lines. According to the
Telecommunications Industry Association's 2008 Market Review and Forecast,
"During the next four years, more fiber will be deployed than during the
so-called overbuilding years of the late 1990s and early 2000s."

Gary

_____________________________________________
From: Gary Gomes [mailto:ggomes at soundviewnet.com] 
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:10 PM
To: '1st-mile-nm at mailman.dcn.org'
Subject: New Mexico is slowest Internet in US

Another QWEST victory - the latest Internet survey from PC Magazine has New
Mexico dead last.  So much for our PRC's great "settlement".

New Mexico
Population: 1,969,915
Area: 121,589 square miles
Average speed: 322 Kbps
SurfSpeed rank: 50th
Satisfied users: 36 percent
Median monthly price of broadband: $35
Broadband penetration: 45.0 percent
There's tons to see and do in New Mexico, but surfing the Internet quickly
isn't one of them. It's the slowest state in America on our SurfSpeed test,
with an average speed of 322 Kbps; New Mexicans jaunt through the tubes at
about 40 percent the rate of nearby Nevadans. DSL connections held back the
state on our test, with Qwest's 381 Kbps pulling the average slightly up and
EarthLink's 277 Kbps bringing it down. 




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