The Federal Communications Commission’s October- November 2009 analysis finds that about two-thirds (65 percent) of American adults use accelerated Internet con- nections to go online from home.
The FCC conducted a analysis of 5,005 Americans in October and November 2009 in an accomplishment to accept the accompaniment of broadband acceptance and use, as able-bodied as barriers adverse those who do not accept broadband at home. The capital allegation are:
➤ 78 percent of adults are Internet users, whether that agency broadband, dial-up, admission from home or admission from achieve added than home.
➤ 74 percent of adults accept admission at home. ➤ 67 percent of U.S. households accommodate a broadband user
who accesses the account at home. ➤ 65 percent of adults are broadband adopters. The dis-
crepancy of two allotment credibility amid domiciliary and alone home use is because some analysis respon- dents are nonbroadband users but alive with addition who, at home, is.
➤ 6 percent of Americans use dial-up Internet admission as their capital anatomy of home access.
➤ 6 percent are Internet users but do not use it from home; they admission the Internet from places such as work, the library or association centers.
In a analysis of 5,005 Americans – a adequately baby sample, to be abiding – begin that academy accomplished Americans earning $75K+ are best acceptable to accept broadband while the everyman assimilation is in association over 65+ and Hispanics. While this is hardly a surprise, extrapolating out to get 93 actor abeyant non-broadband users is hardly disconcerting. Sure, the jokes actuality address themselves (“Oh no! The old can’t use Facebook!”), the actuality that broadband is out of ability for association in lower-income brackets and for minorities creates addition educational abysm we’re activity to accept to accord with eventually than later.
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