Hillary Clinton wants broadband for every US citizen by 2020

Hillary Clinton wants every US citizen to have broadband internet by 2020.

However, according to Akamai's First Quarter 2016 State of the Internet report,  this would be a tall order for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

Akamai is an internet platform used by websites to ensure high speeds and high quality streaming.

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) recently redefined broadband from 4Mbps down/1Mbps up to 25Mbps down/3Mbps up, but the State of the Internet report, which is based on data gathered from the Akamai Intelligent Platform, the US is nowhere near  achieving those speeds.

While connection speeds were now reaching the FCC's new 25 Mbps broadband threshold, no state had yet achieved this as an average broadband speed. However, that could soon change, as the District of Columbia was within striking distance of the 25 Mbps threshold.

All 50 states and DC saw average connection speeds exceeding the 10Mbps threshold in the first quarter of 2016, which was up from 49 states in 2015's fourth quarter. Although at most places average connection speeds increased quarter over quarter, gains were more modest in the first quarter of 2016.

Increases were up from 0.2 per cent in Wisconsin (to 15.3Mbps) to 13 per cent in the District of Columbia and only Virginia had a small decline of 1.8 per cent.

Also 13 states saw gains of at least 30 per cent as against the preceding year.

According to Akamai, in Kentucky, Idaho, and Alaska, which had the slowest speeds in the nation, the average speed was 10.9Mbps.
 
Global average connection speed increased 12 per cent in the first quarter of 2016 from the fourth quarter of 2015, to 6.3 Mbps, according to the report.

Year over year, global internet speeds vaulted 23 per cent, said the content delivery network.

South Korea was the leader with the highest average connection speed at 29.0 Mbps, an 8.6 per cent increase from last quarter, while  Norway (21.3 Mbps) and Sweden (20.6 Mbps) were the next two in the pecking order.

The US failed to make it to the top 10, ranking No 16 with average connection speed of 15.3 Mbps, a 7.7 per cent rise from the prior quarter.