Pricey high-speed Internet hurts entrepreneurs

Imagine this: You’re starting a new business.

Getting electricity is difficult. It’s expensive, unreliable, slow.

The electric company creates "fast lanes" for your competitors — big corporations — that pay to get electricity first and fastest. Their customers can reach them faster than your customers reach you.

That would make it really tough to launch a new company and succeed, right? It would mean your small business would be at a big disadvantage.

And it would significantly inhibit innovation.

Now, substitute "the Internet" for "electricity," and that’s exactly what’s happening in America.

The USA is among the most expensive of 34 developed countries for high-speed Internet access when looking at the cost of a package of telecommunications services including telephone, television and 90 hours of broadband at 45 megabits per second. Cost per month:

Rhonda Abrams, USA TODAY

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