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Broadband expansion has slowed sharply
9/22/2005 | 
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Mike Himowitz, The Baltimore Sun, Business
'"If you read a newspaper, watch TV or surf the Web, it's hard to avoid that Verizon ad - the one that offers broadband Internet service for $14.95 a month.
Actually, call it Broadband Lite. With a maximum download speed of 768 kilobits per second, it has less than a quarter of the maximum speed of cable Internet service, and about half as much as Verizon's normal DSL connection.
But it's still a lot faster than dial-up - and just dandy for Web browsing and e-mail. It's also a third of the price of cable Internet service.
Why the bargain-basement offer?
A survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project offers a clue. The results, to be released today, show that the pace of growth in broadband service is slowing sharply. And those who don't already have broadband are less likely to want it - or have the resources to pay for it.
According to Pew's June survey of 2,001 Americans, 53 percent of households with Internet service have broadband connections, compared with 50 percent in a similar survey in December 2004.
Statistically, that's almost no growth at all. In the period before that, the number of broadband connections grew by 20 percent.
The survey also shows that the remaining dial-up users are older and less avid Web surfers than dialup users were several years ago."
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