The organization's numbers on broadband use in the U.S. is sobering; only 40 percent of racial and ethnic minority households have broadband and 20 million Americans live in areas with no broadband. The grim list goes on.

The sum of the numbers adds up to a problem for the U.S. At the beginning of the decade our broadband infrastructure was being built out at a rate that made the U.S. one of the world's leaders in connectivity. That has changed. We now lag far behind much of Europe, especially northern Europe, and Asian nations like Japan and South Korea.

Hopefully InternetforEveryone.org can create enough heat to get the telecommunications and cable companies and Congress to make broadband deployment a priority. If broadband continues the way it has for the past eight years Americans are likely to end up paying more for inferior service compared to our competition. An expensive and slow Internet is not good for American innovation or commerce.