The United States is in the middle of the global pack on broadband infrastructure and is forging a very different upgrade path than the rest of the world, according to a new report (PDF) by Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society. The report was commissioned by the Federal Communications Commission, as part of its mandate under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create a new plan for national broadband access and improvement.

The report is extremely dense, and serves as a graduate-school level overview of the global state of broadband usage; more casual readers may prefer a Harvard interview with the primary author, Yochai Benkler.

To read this report in full, see:
www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/173918/.html
www.networkworld.com/news/2009/101909-study-us-broadband-in-middle.html