Most of the times broadband has been used as a brand name to lure customers but nobody actually cared about the way it was being heavily used by companies. Now, with latest data from FCC out into the public, it looks like the situation might just be going out of hand for United States of America.

"The FCC continues its practice of releasing highly flawed and misleading analysis about the broadband marketplace that grossly overstates the level of broadband competition. The shortcomings in this report are inexcusable and suggest that Chairman Genachowski's commitment to run a 'data-driven' agency is thus far just an empty slogan.

"In 2008, the Commission made major changes to its broadband data collection practices. The new data was intended to allow the agency to examine the relationship between market concentration and broadband quality, price and adoption. But instead, the FCC continues to fail to take advantage of this information, choosing to publish misleading analysis in the same mold as the widely criticized reports released under Chairman Michael Powell and Chairman Kevin Martin.

Along with the news of 68 percent Internet connections in US having speed below 4 Mbps the reports also reveals that by the second half of 2009 the mobile wireless market had grown to 52 million with the mobile wireless technology leading internet connectivity above 200kbps when compared to that of cable modems and ADSLs.

[via DSL Reports]