Internet Connectivity

Grumpy Broadband Users Call into WYPR's Marc Steiner Show

When you look at the data on Americans without broadband at home, it suggests it will take time to get these holdouts off the digital sidelines.

This presentation contains charts on trends in home broadband adoption, focusing on the 2005 to 2007 timeframe.

47% of adults have high-speed internet connections at home as of early March 2007, up five percentage points from a year earlier.

This presentation was made at the OECD's Workshop entitled: "The economic and social impacts of broadband communications: From ICT measurement to policy implications."

Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency remain largely disconnected from the internet.

Hispanics with lower levels of education and English proficiency remain largely disconnected from the internet.

That's the percent of internet users who have logged onto the internet using a wireless connection either around the house, at their workplace, or some place else. In other words, one-third of internet users, either with a laptop computer, a handheld personal digital assistant (PDA), or cell phone, have surfed the internet or checked email using means such as WiFi broadband or cell phone networks

Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase.

A new survey from the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that 73% of American adults (age 18+) go online to use the internet or email.