Pew Internet Releases Findings From New Home Broadband Usage Survey

From the Pew Internet & American Life Project:

Some 70% of American adults ages 18 and older have a high-speed broadband connection at home as of May 2013, according to a nationally representative survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
The survey also found that 3% of American adults go online at home via dial-up connections.
As found in previous research, groups with the highest rates of home broadband adoption continue to be college graduates, adults under age 50, and adults living in households earning at least $50,000, as well as whites and adults living in urban or suburban areas.

Highlights

• This is a small but statistically significant rise from the 66% of adults who said they had home broadband in April 2012.

• In recent years internet-connected mobile devices such as smartphones have exploded in popularity, offering an alternate form of “home” internet access. Today 56% of American adults own a smartphone of some kind, compared with 70% who have broadband at home.

• If we include that 10% of Americans with the 70% who have traditional broadband, that means that 80% of Americans have either a broadband connection, a smartphone, or both. Here is how the 80% breaks down:

• 46% of Americans have both a home broadband connection and a smartphone
• 24% have a home broadband connection, but not a smartphone
• 10% have a smartphone, but not a home broadband connection

The remaining 20% of Americans have neither a home broadband connection nor a smartphone.

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