Wireless and Broadband

Broadband Adoption at Home Grows Strongly in Winter Months of 2003 & 2004

55% of Internet Users Have High-Speed Either at Home or Work

CONTACT: John B. Horrigan, 202-296-0019

Wi Fi Radio WASHINGTON Broadband Internet access is increasingly being woven into the work and home lives of Internet users in the United States. According to the February 2004 survey of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, 55% of American Internet users have access to broadband either at home or in the workplace. Fully 39% of U.S. online users have broadband access at home.
Much of the growth in broadband adoption at home is attributable to users unhappiness with the dial-up doldrums that is, people growing frustrated with their slow dial-up connections. Nearly 60% of home broadband users say that impatience with dial-up connections or a desire to download files faster is the reason they switched to broadband. Price of service plays a relatively minor role in the home high-speed adoption decision.

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Broadband Access People do more things online the longer they have been Internet users, and the additional waiting sours them on dial-up, said John B. Horrigan, Senior Research Specialist at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and author of the report. Paying more for broadband thus has big efficiency payoffs for many dial-up users. The extra monthly cost is well worth it for high-speed home users, and this is why they tell us price is not a big factor in their move to broadband.

* Households with a laptop and home network watch three fewer hours of TV per week and read the paper an hour less per week than offline households do. In the past three months, 43 percent of US online households banked online, 41 percent checked their account balances online, and 24 percent transferred balances online. In 2004, 39.5 million US households shopped online 3.5 million more than in 2003. Broadband, laptop, and home networking adoption will help drive online research and purchasing to more than 55 million households by 2010.

Wi Fi Antenna Here are some highlights from the Pew Internet Projects February 2004 survey:

/NetRatings reports that 51% of U.S. home connections were broadband in July 2004, up from 38% 12 months ago. /NetRatings broadband definition includes ISDN, cable modems, and DSL. In figures about to be released as part of its quarterly Netwatch service, /NetRatings in New Zealand reports that broadband connections in homes reached 6.7% for the quarter ended 30 June 2004. This compares to 1.8% for the same quarter last year.

Broadband Service # 68 million Americans or 34% of all adult Americans have access to high-speed Internet connections either at home or on the job.
# 48 million Americans or 24% of all adult Americans have high-speed access at home.
# Home broadband adoption is up 60% since March 2003, with half of that growth since November 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.

Broadband data service provided by your mobile wireless phone carrier is another option for high–speed Internet access. Broadband data service is available for users with wireless mobile smart phones. It is also available for a notebook computer, using a broadband data card provided by the wireless service provider that connects via a USB port or card slot). The broadband data service connects your computer to the nearest wireless mobile tower, enabling you to use it while the RV is parked or moving.

Wi Fi Card The February 2004 survey interviewed 2,204 Americans age 18 or over (1,371 Internet users). Margin of error is +/-2 percent points for the full sample and +/-3 percentage points for Internet users. 63% of respondents were Internet users in the survey.

Although wireless broadband data service providers eliminate the need for a Wi–Fi connection, the Internet connection data rates are slower than Wi–Fi. Broadband rates vary, from approximately 200K and may range higher into the 1. second. Broadband data service providers generally require a minimum 12 or 24–month contract, with monthly data service costs approximately $ month or more, over and above your mobile phone service charges.

Broadband Connection The Pew Internet & American Life Project is a non-profit, non-partisan research organization funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts to explore the social impact of the Internet. The Project does not advocate any policy positions.

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