55% of adult Internet users have broadband at home or work

Submitted by cel4145 on April 26, 2004 - 11:38.

The most recent Pew Internet & American Life Project has some new statistics on broadband access:

  • 55% of all adult Internet users – or 34% of all adult Americans – have access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or on the job.
  • 39% of adult Internet users – or 24% of all adult Americans – have high-speed access at home, an increase of 60% since March 2003.
  • A surge in subscription to DSL high-speed Internet connections, which has more than doubled since March 2003, is largely behind the growth in broadband at home.
  • DSL now has a 42% share of the home broadband market, up from 28% in March 2003.
  • For the first time, more than half (52%) of a key demographic group – college educated people age 35 and younger – has broadband connections at home.
  • Only 10% of rural Americans go online from home with high-speed connections, about one-third the rate for non-rural Americans.

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I wonder

Submitted by Samantha on May 1, 2004 - 18:23.

I wonder how much of this has to do with the new all in one packaging that is being offered by phone companies. My mother, who is very basic user, is seriously considering DSL because her phone company is offering her a phone, long distance, wireless, DSL package that will consolidate the services that she has with several different companies and actually lower her costs.

Wonder if they have a mortgage, student loan, car, cable, phone, utility package that can do the same for me???

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