Impact: What surprised us was that the number of people that can’t get broadband actually seemed surprisingly low. The U.S. is a large country with many isolated rural areas. However between 92-95% has access to broadband if they so choose (in the report broadband was defined as speeds of at least 4 Mbps). Increasingly it appears that the U.S. is becoming a broadband nation. However, as the recently released report from Pando Networks shows, broadband penetration and performance is closely tied to income and density of population. Large urban areas simply have faster performance and broadband performance is much stronger along the densely populated Eastern seaboard. As the report concluded, reaching those final people for universal coverage will be a “massive undertaking.”   Â