Surprise: America is No. 1 in Broadband

According to the "Connectivity Scorecard," the US tops the 25 developed countries on economically productive use of communication technology by consumers, businesses and government. [My gosh this Obama guy is good -- he's solved the problem in, like, 30 days!] The biggest reason is that business in the United States has made extensive use of computers and the Internet and it has a technically skilled work force. Also, as dusty as your local motor vehicle office may seem, government use of communications technology is as good in the United States as anywhere in the world. After the United States, the ranking found that Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and Norway rounded out the five most productive users of connectivity. Japan ranked 10, and Korea, 18. And while wired and wireless broadband networks used by consumers lagged other countries, the United States ranked No. 1 in the world for technology use and skills by consumers.