Silicon Alley News: FCC Says Broadband Access Up
Nearly 10 million Americans now have high-speed connections to the Internet, according to the Federal Communications Commission's third report to Congress about advanced telecommunications.

The report said high speed subscribers (including those with advanced services) numbered about 9.6 million as of June 2001, a 36 percent increase since the first half of the year and about a 250 percent increase since December 1999.
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