Here's why most of Pennsylvania doesn't have high-speed internet — and won't for at least 6 years

Only four states meet or exceed the federal minimum of 25 megabytes per second (Mbps) for broadband connectivity — and Pennsylvania isn't one of them. Sascha Meinrath, telecommunications chair at Penn State University, unveiled the results of a 2018 study analyzing over 250 million speed tests from across the U.S during a Pennsylvania state Senate Communications and Technology Committee public hearing. Effectively, more than half of Pennsylvanians do not have access to the minimum broadband connection. While the state Senate Committee hearing addressed concerns over un- and underserved communities throughout Pennsylvania that do not have sufficient access to high-speed internet, a portion of it was dedicated to identifying errors in FCC mapping of the state.