Equity and Internet Speed in Cleveland

Digital redlining is the modern day continuation and perpetuation of historic, institutionalized racism.In this experiment, ten locations within the City of Cleveland were selected, with two locations for each of five income groups.Two internet speed tests for download speed and upload speed were conducted in the ten locations over three trials for both Verizon and AT&T.A linear regression analysis was conducted to measure the association between median income and internet speed.Verizon download, AT&T download, and Verizon upload speeds all trended downward as median income increased.A statistically significant correlation of (p<.05) was found for these three out of four measures.These findings were surprising given the hypothesis was the opposite of these based on the expectation that more impoverished areas would have slower service.Further investigation should collect data of the speed of wifi provided internet resources rather than cellular data speed and at a greater number of areas over a variety of times of day.