The Commerce Department’s recently unveiled map of the US broadband services shows digital divide between the rural and urban areas of the country.

According to the map of the broadband services, people in some large areas of the western as well as southern US do not have access fixed wireless broadband services.

Between five to ten percent of the US households, particularly in the countryside, do not have access to Internet service of at least 4MB/s, which is essential for activities like web-surfing, video-streaming and emailing.

The map also depicts that around 32 per cent of US households do not subscribe to the available broadband service. Around 3 per cent rely on a dial-up connection, which offers speeds of less than 1MB/s.

The data show that merely 12 per cent households in the District of Columbia can have access to broadband speeds of up to 25Mb/s.

The new broadband map is a part of the federal government’s multi-billion dollar plan to enhance broadband service across the country, especially in rural areas.