U.S. Broadband Speeds Grew 34% in 2010

The speed of residential broadband connections in the United States increased by 34 percent during 2010, according to In-Stat.

The average download speed for the broadband subscribers in the survey was 9.54 Mbps, up from 7.12 Mbps just twelve months earlier. In comparison to the rapidly rising amounts of bandwidth available to broadband subscribers, between end of year 2009 and end of year 2010, the average price for broadband service increased by just four percent.

Some 38 percent of the survey respondents also had a mobile wireless broadband connection.

The average downstream speed across all access technologies increased by 71 percent over the course of the past two years.

In-Stat - Multimedia Broadband Services Catalog