Google Fiber-less and sick of slow Internet? Move to Mongolia

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Google this week announced plans to expand its ultrafast Internet service to Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Nashville, Tenn., and Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

The Internet service has download speeds of up to 1 gigabit per second—that’s roughly 100 times faster than the national average.

And the cost? It’s currently $70 a month in the cities where it already exists: Provo, Utah, the Kansas City metro area and Austin, Texas.

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If you don’t live in one of those six cities, odds are you would vote Time Warner Cable or Comcast the most unpopular company in America.

Don’t want to move to Provo, Utah, or Kansas City for faster Internet? If the only thing you value is speedy Internet, move to Moldova, Mongolia, Serbia or Lithuania. All those countries have faster average Internet speeds than the U.S. In fact, 34 countries rank higher than the U.S. for Internet bandwidth per Internet user, according to data from the World Economic Forum.

Here’s its list of the 35 countries and their international Internet bandwidth in kb/s per Internet user, as of 2012.

Country/Economy	Value
1. Luxembourg	4,091.4
2. Hong Kong SAR	1,239.8
3. Malta	638.5
4. Singapore	391.1
5. Iceland	371.2
6. Switzerland	322.7
7. Sweden	279.8
8. Portugal	193.8
9. Norway	189.1
10. United Kingdom	188.9
11. Belgium	184.9
12. Denmark	175
13. Netherlands	172.9
14. Finland	159.5
15. Puerto Rico	135.4
16. Romania	116
17. Austria	108.5
18. Canada	101
19. Czech Republic	101
20. Ireland	97
21. Slovenia	95.9
22. Bulgaria	94.4
23. Moldova	94
24. Mongolia	91.9
25. France	84.6
26. Spain	81.3
27. Italy	76.2
28. Germany	75.5
29. Serbia	70.5
30. Poland	70.4
31. Lithuania	70.1
32. Cyprus	69.7
33. Barbados	69.5
34. Australia	69.5
35. United States	62.3

U.S. 35th in this ranking of Internet bandwidth available per user

By SallyFrench

Social media editor

Google Fiber-less and sick of slow Internet? Move to Mongolia