Selected news stories about the Pew Internet Project and articles citing our data.
With boost here or there, dial-up endures
9/26/2005 | 
Coverage
Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe, Personal Tech
'"First the dial tone, followed by touch-tone beeps, a high-pitched squeal, and the hiss of white noise. It's the sound of an old-fashioned telephone modem dialing onto the Net, and many of you haven't heard it in years.
According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 53 percent of America's home Internet users have switched to broadband services like cable modem or DSL service. These alternative Internet services are dead silent, and a lot faster than a dial-up modem. And in a couple more years, we'll all have broadband and the howl of the modem will be heard no more.
Or maybe not. If 53 percent of Internet users are on broadband, that means 47 percent aren't. That works out to about 60 million Americans, enough to keep the modems whining for years to come."
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