Go ahead and add some video, sound or flash to those web sites. Just about everyone has hi-speed internet access now. Ok maybe not, the percentage of high speed users in America is still less than half (only 42%). This is a pitiful number when compared to the rest of the developed world. America is ranked at #12 in the percentage of high speed users according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s most recent rankings.

U.S. high-speed Internet subscriptions soared 33 percent last year to 50.2 million lines, according to the latest data released by the Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday.

An estimated 42 percent of Americans had high-speed Internet access at home in March 2006, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That was up from 30 percent of Americans with high-speed access one year earlier, it said.

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