As modern Americans, we count among our blessings that most of us have been able to keep going during this pandemic — working, educating our kids, consulting with our doctors – thanks to broadband Internet. That is, high-speed Internet.

There’s only one problem: “Tens of millions of Americans are not connected to broadband internet,” said Gigi Sohn, who worked for the FCC during the Obama administration.

She said the number of people who don’t have broadband depends on who you ask: “If you ask the Federal Communications Commission, they’ll say it’s only something along the lines of 20, 23 million people, and that is a grossly undercounted number. Microsoft has done a study that showed 162 million Americans don’t have broadband at the speeds that the FCC defines ‘broadband.'”

If you’re scoring at home, that’s about half the population of the U.S. with either very slow internet or none at all.

More at CBS News.