The [Reddit] thread has much more information regarding this article, including the Author and co-founder of the site.
The head of this study is on reddit, as reddit.com/u/NickReese
This study does not take in account the upcoming change of bradband >=25Mbps . The current site uses >=10Mbps .
There's also question regarding their data, as it does seem compromised in certain locations. He was looking into it, after a few redditors that supposedly had multiple broadband providers only had one, and some none at all.
It shows 17 providers for Cupertino but many of them are business only, a lot of them don't even show claimed bitrates, and it looks like it's counting LTE as broadband (while it's fast, it's insanely expensive to actually use for more than a few gigs per month).
It's been a couple years since I moved out of there but at the time I'm pretty sure I only had one true broadband choice, Comcast. This being a few miles from Apple and Google.
Even after reading that thread, I still find the conclusions quite compelling. I have no doubt the data could be +-10% off easily, but even if it is 10% off that is still a pretty shoddy state of affairs.
They are definitely trying to provide good data if nothing else...
The head of this study is on reddit, as reddit.com/u/NickReese
This study does not take in account the upcoming change of bradband >=25Mbps . The current site uses >=10Mbps .
There's also question regarding their data, as it does seem compromised in certain locations. He was looking into it, after a few redditors that supposedly had multiple broadband providers only had one, and some none at all.
[Reddit] http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2vk1xx/after_33b...