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68% of those living in households earning $75,000 own smartphones.
Over 95 percent of those in households earning over $75,000 use the Internet and cell phones compared with 70 percent of those living in households earning less than $75,000.
Adoption Rates Low Among Spanish-dominant Homes
While broadband adoption experiences increases among English-speaking Hispanics, adoption rates lag in Spanish-dominant homes, which is attributed to a lack of digital literacy, price barriers and a lack of perceived benefits of broadband adoption.
Nearly 90 Percent of Households with Incomes of At Least $50,000 Have a Broadband Connection
Horrigan (2010) reports that nearly 90 percent of households with incomes of at least $50,000 have a broadband connection, compared to 52 percent of households with incomes below that level.
53% of those living in households with income over $100,000 are very satisfied with their home broadband speed.
When asked about home broadband download speed, 53% of those living in households with income over $100,000 are very satisfied with their home broadband speed.
Lower income broadband users more likely than middle-to-upper income Americans to say they do not know their home connection speed.
Lower income broadband users (those living in households with annual incomes under $30,000 per year) are more likely than middle-to-upper income Americans (those in households with annual income over $75,000) to say they do not know their home connection speed – by an 83% to 77% margin.
One recent study estimated that a seven percentage point increase in broadband adoption “could result in [direct annual income growth of] $92 billion through an additional 2.4 million jobs created or saved annually, $662 million saved per year in reduced healthcare costs…and $134 billion per year in total direct economic impact of accelerating broadband across the United States.”
According to Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon LLC, economic models indicate broadband access would “reach universality” without government intervention in the market by about 2016.
Robert Shapiro, chairman of Sonecon LLC, said that the differences in diffusion of Internet access across different income groups was “closer to a digital lag than a digital divide,” with lower income people adopting these technologies at the same rate as higher income people, but with a four-year lag.
According to a new Phoenix Center study, a $10,000 increase in gross domestic product per capita on average increases the connection rate per capita by 1.97 percentage points.
