The cable industry is cheering new data suggesting that most Americans receive something close to the broadband speeds advertised by their Internet service providers. The Ookla broadband testing service’s report compares “promised” versus “actual” broadband speeds around the world and concludes that Americans get 92.91 percent of their advertised throughput rate.

“That sounds like pretty good news,” the National Cable and Telecommunications Association’s Cable Tech Talk blog notes. “Networks are performing by and large as they should and, as a result, consumers are happy.”

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