Home Broadband 2008

Analysis of Non-Broadband Users

Introduction

With more than half of Americans now with broadband and the number of dial-up users dwindling, it is worth asking those still going without broadband at home. The reasons why many Americans don’t have broadband fall into several non-mutually exclusive categories:

  • They don’t want broadband.
  • They can’t afford broadband.
  • They can’t get broadband where they live.
  • They aren’t internet users.
  • They don’t see the upside to modern information technology.
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