I don't dispute the conclusions in this article nor do I think the U.S. is trying hard enough to build its Internet infrastructure.  But these comparisons are a little unfair.  If you take the top 2 countries in speed (South Korea and Japan) you realize there's a huge space disparity.  South Korea has a total area of 38,622 sq mi while Japan has a total of 145,925 sq mi.  While on the U.S. side Texas alone is 268,820 sq mi of land while the country itself is 3,794,101 sq mi total.<p>So yes the U.S. might be a little slower in deploying high speed lines but the effort involved in running cables and building up that infrastructure is far more significant.