Telecom: broadband at home

As Dave Burstein at dslprime.com (which is where this data is from) put it : "Canada is so far ahead of the U.S. it's ridiculous to say U.S. policy hasn't been a major failure."

Broadband per 100 households

 South Korea               80
 Hong Kong                 76
 Israel                    62
 Taiwan                    61
 Singapore                 59
 Netherlands               54
 Monaco                    53
 Canada                    52
 Switzerland               51
 Denmark                   50
 Norway                    45
 Japan                     43
 Belgium                   43
 Finland                   42
 Sweden                    39
 USA                       38
 UK                        37
 France                    36
 And a few others
 Spain                     32
 Estonia                   32
 Australia                 31
 Italy                     28
 Germany                   22
 Poland                    10
 China                     10
 Turkey                    8
 Mexico                    4
 Greece                    3
 Russia                    3
 Egypt, India, Pakistan, Indonesia all less than 1.