Three: DSL is still the most available wireline technology.  Yes, we hear a lot about fiber-to-the-home buildouts, but DSL is still alive and kicking as the broadband technology most widely available across the United States.  DSL may not be as fast as cable connections, but roughly 87% of the population in the United States has access to it, while 82% of the U.S. has access to cable.  Not many technologies come close to DSL and cable as far as availability goes, as fiber-to-the-home is only available for around 14% of the population.

Four: Wireless looks like the future for rural broadband.  Although there are gaps between urban and rural areas in terms of availability for all times of broadband technologies, the smallest gap exists for wireless technologies.  This gap figures to get even smaller over the next few years as of 22 different states and to bring LTE to areas that aren't currently covered.  In addition to services offered on licensed spectrum, we will also see a proliferation of wireless broadband services that utilize the unlicensed .

Five: New York is the king of the 100Mbps download.  There are only eight counties in the United States in which 99% of the population has access to broadband services that offer advertised download speeds of 100Mbps.  Five of those counties (Nassau, Rockland, Westchester, Suffolk and Bronx) are in New York, while the remaining ones reside in California (San Francisco and Alameda) and New Jersey (Passaic).

Six: Wyoming is not a good place for high-speed Internet.  Sparsely-populated, mountainous terrains aren't typically easy to build high-powered telecommunications networks in and Wyoming is no exception.  Only 53.5% of the population in Wyoming has access to a broadband service that offers advertised speeds of 3Mbps for downloads and 0.7Mbps for uploads.  The good news, however, is that Wyoming is an outlier as 3Mbps-down-0.7Mbps-up connections are available to more than 70% of the population in all the other 49 states, and to more than 90% of the population in 42 other states.  These connection speeds are only available to 100% of residents in three states, however: the District of Columbia, Delaware and New Jersey.

So those were six interesting factoids I found.  Try going to the and find some more for yourself!