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Fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections were up 10% in 2008
According to the FCC, fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections (by the high speed definition of 768 Kbps downstream and more than 200 upstream) were up 10% in 2008 to 77 million, but that was down from the 17% increase the year before.
In 200 counties (representing 1% of U.S. households), no more than 20% met that definition of high speed
According to the FCC, in 200 counties (representing 1% of U.S. households), no more than 20% met that definition of high speed, while in about half as many counties (104) with eight times the population (8% of the households), 80% had at least those speeds.
Currently, 63 percent of adults have broadband at home, compared to just 7 percent who use dial-up connections, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project.
47% of Americans have laptops, and wireless is by and large the norm for internet access.
Some 80% of laptop users have connected to the internet using a wireless network such as WiFi and 37% have used a longer range wireless broadband connection such as an AirCard. 81% of laptop users have connected wirelessly using one of those means.
56% of all Americans have accessed the internet by wireless means with a variety of devices ranging from laptops, cell phones, game consoles and more.
23 percent of European homes and businesses using fixed-line broadband, compared with 20 percent in the United States.
Some 43% of broadband users at home connect through cable, 31% by DSL and 23% by fixed wireless, satellite or fiber. Old fashioned dial-up access still accounts for 7% of Web users.
A new Pew study has found that with even higher speed, broadband would provide consumers even greater benefits – at a minimum of an additional $6 billion per year.
It is estimated that 8 percent to 10 percent of the nation’s hinterland households do not have access to high-speed Internet service.
According to an April 2009 survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project 85 percent of respondents in a recent study told researchers that they have a smart phone or cell phone, but only 32 percent said they’ve used it to go online.
There’s much less of a gap with laptops. 47 percent reported having one, 39 percent say they’ve accessed the internetnet with it via a wireless connection.
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