Friday, March 27, 2020

56% of U.S. Cities See No Service Degradation from "Stay at Home" Policies

For the week of March 15 to March 21, 2020, internet access services in 200 U.S. cities are maintaining service levels, though 13.5 percent of cities have seen average speed dips of 20 percent of typical ranges, according to Broadband Now. 


About 44 percent  of the 200 cities have experienced some degree of network degradation over the past week compared to the 10 weeks prior. Fully 56 percent of cities have seen no slowdowns. 

Three cities--Austin, Texas, Winston Salem, North Carolina, and Oxnard, California have experienced significant degradations, falling out of their ten-week range by more than 40 percent.

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