| Sumario: | The United States is losing considerable ground to Japan and its neighbors in the broadband race. In the Bush administration's first three years, President George W. Bush mentioned broadband twice, and only in passing, and the Federal Communications Commission displayed little interest in opening home telephone lines to outside competitors to push down broadband prices and increase demand. In Japan, top-level political leadership and ambitious goals meant that, by May 2003, broadband was present in a higher percentage of homes than in the United States and the country had moved well beyond the basic connections still used in America. Meanwhile, South Korea already has the world's highest percentage of broadband users, and in 2004, the absolute number of broadband users in urban China exceeded that of the United States.
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