Google, Activists Offer Mapping Tool to Fan Dissatisfaction with Broadband Speeds

摘要

Google and the New America Foundation took the wraps off a broadband map that displays nmedian download and upload speeds around the world, making use of open, publicly available nM-Lab data. “There’s a lot of assertions” about global broadband rankings, “but those are noften not very quantitative, so we’re very interested in making those more crisp and nunderstandable,” said Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist, demonstrating the tool at a nNew America Foundation event.