According to Federal Communications Commission, about 93 million Americans don't use fast, broadband Internet, citing cost and complexity as a factor in their refusal to enter the new century.
Their study, found that 80 million adults and 13 million children either still use dial-up or don't use the Internet at all at home, suggesting that either the survey methodology might be flawed or we're in serious trouble.
Here are the results:
The Federal Communications Commission's October- November 2009 survey finds that nearly two-thirds (65 percent) of American adults use high-speed Internet con- nections to go online from home.
The FCC conducted a survey of 5,005 Americans in October and November 2009 in an effort to understand the state of broadband adoption and use, as well as barriers facing those who do not have broadband at home. The main findings are:
- 78 % of adults are Internet users, whether that means broadband, dial-up, access from home or access from someplace other than home.
- 74 % of adults have access at home.
- 67 % of U.S. households contain a broadband user who accesses the service at home.
- 65 % of adults are broadband adopters. The discrepancy of two percentage points between household and individual home use is because some survey respon- dents are nonbroadband users but live with someone who, at home, is.
- 6 % of Americans use dial-up Internet connections as their main form of home access.
- 6 % are Internet users but do not use it from home; they access the Internet from places such as work, the library or community centers.