{"id":4451,"date":"2008-07-02T15:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/?p=4451"},"modified":"2008-07-02T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T22:36:12","slug":"pew-study-broadband-is-healthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/02\/pew-study-broadband-is-healthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pew Study: Broadband is Healthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tThe Pew Internet and American Life Project released their latest report on broadband in America<\/a> today, and it looks pretty rosy. Pew makes a great deal out of the fact that broadband use isn’t rising among America’s poor, but that’s hardly surprising. You sort of need a computer, some education, and an income of some sort to make much use of broadband, so until those issues are addressed you’re not going to see much change over the 25% broadband use among Americans with household incomes below $20,000. Not many of these people have health insurance either, and I imagine they’d choose it before broadband if you asked. Broadband isn’t growing among the richest Americans either, having reached 85% among $100,000+ households. What are these people doing that’s so much more fun than reading blogs?<\/p>\n

Some highlights I found interesting:<\/p>\n

* Broadband is getting cheaper: <\/p>\n

Overall, home broadband users reported that their monthly payment for internet service was $34.50 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4% less than the figure of $36 per month reported in December 2005.2 This decline in monthly broadband bills is half the rate (8%) reported over the February 2004 to December 2005 timeframe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* DSL and cable are losing share to Fiber and Wireless:
\n\"facilities\"<\/a><\/p>\n

* Prices aren’t falling faster because users choose premium services:<\/p>\n

\nOne possible reason that users\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 monthly broadband bills did not fall as fast from 2005 to 2008 as was the case in the 2004-05 interval is the existence of pricier premium service. Most (54%) of broadband users say they subscribe to basic broadband service, but nearly one-third (29%) say they subscribe to a premium service at a higher price.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

* Price isn’t the reason more people don’t have broadband, it’s lack of interest:<\/p>\n

Still, one-third (33%) of non-internet users say they are simply not interested in the internet, with another 12% saying they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have access. Some 9% of non-users say the internet is too difficult or frustrating for them and just 7% say it is too expensive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The overall state of broadband in America isn’t nearly as dire as Google’s Internet For Everyone coalition maintains, but they’re going to spin this report to say that it is.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pew Internet and American Life Project released their latest report on broadband in America today, and it looks pretty rosy. Pew makes a great deal out of the fact that broadband use isn’t rising among America’s poor, but that’s hardly surprising. You sort of need a computer, some education, and an income of some … Continue reading “Pew Study: Broadband is Healthy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,38],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-4451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality","tag-broadband"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-19N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}