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Pew Research: In US 70% Have A BroadBand Connection At Home; 20% Don’t Have Broadband Nor Smartphone

August 26, 2013 by Michael Berkens

Pew Research Center’s Internet &American Life Project released its report entitled “Home Broadband 2013” and found that in the United States  20% of U.S. adults are still without broadband or smartphones for internet access. And 3% of people in the country still using dial-up connections.

According to the report 70% of American’s have Broadband access at home up from 66% in 2012.

Almost nine in ten college graduates have high speed internet at home compared with just 37% of adults who have no completed high school.

Only 54% of Those earning less than $30,000 have broadband.

Only 43% of those 65 or over have Broadband.

While 70% of homes have broadband 56% of American Adults own a smartphone

10% of Americans indicate that they do not have a broadband connection at home but that they own a smartphone (another way to say this is that 32% of nonbroadband users own a smartphone).

If we include that 10% of Americans with the 70% who have traditional broadband, that means that 80% of Americans have either a broadband connection smartphone, or both.

The remaining 20% of Americans have neither a home broadband connection nor a smartphone.

3% of the adult US population still use a dial up connection

You can read the whole report here

Filed Under: Internet News

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. Louise says

    August 26, 2013 at 5:37 pm

    Pew is always interesting – thanx! 🙂


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