Home Broadband 2010

Trends in broadband adoption

66% of American adults have a home broadband connection in 2010, little changed from the 63% who did so in 2009

As of May 2010, two thirds (66%) of American adults have a high-speed broadband connection at home. This is unchanged from our April 2009 finding that 63% of American adults had a home broadband connection.2 The remaining 34% of the adult population outside of home broadband users includes those who go online using a dial-up connection (5% of adults), those who do not go online from home (26%) and those who go online from home but are unsure what type of connection they have (3%).

Adoption

This three percentage point difference between our April 2009 and May 2010 surveys (a difference that is not statistically significant) translates into an overall year-to-year change in home broadband adoption of just 5%, the lowest year-to-year change in recent years.

Year-to-year percentage change

Notes

2 These figures are comparable to the FCC’s 2009 findings that 65% of American adults are broadband adopters. See Broadband Adoption and Use in America, by John Horrigan, available at http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-296442A1.pdf

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