Internet Connectivity

By the end of 2005, 50 million Americans got news online on a typical day, a sizable increase since 2002. Much of that growth has been fueled by the rise in home broadband connections over the last four years.

In December 2005 24% of adult rural Americans went online at home with high-speed internet connections compared with 39% of adults in urban and suburban areas.

There are clear differences among those with broadband connections, dial-up connections, and no connections at all to the internet.

This presentation shows recent trends in home broadband adoption and shows why the growth rates of the recent past are not likely to continue. The pool of remaining dial-up users are older, lower income, and less engaged with the internet than dia...

The growth in home high-speed internet adoption, after growing quickly in the past several years, has slowed down and is poised to slow even further.

How Americans get in touch with government and how the advent of high-speed home internet adoption will effect government-citizen interactions.

Are we entering an era of "user-generated" online content? We may not quite be there. But if you look at how young people with high-speed connections interface with the news, the phrase "news consumers" doesn't capture what these people do when th...

This presentation shows pattern of online news consumption, with particular emphasis on how high-speed internet connections help shift the center of news consumption closer to the online world, especially for young internet users.

Growth in home broadband use and laptop purchases contributes to surge in use of computer networks among multi-computer households

This presentation presents data through January 2005 on broadband adoption at home and discusses prospects for future growth