Study shows why over 30 percent of USA never uses Net
Arstechnica reports on a new NTIA study – Digital Nation: 21st Century America’s Progress Towards Universal Broadband Internet Access.
- 75.8 million = 63.5 percent of US households have High Speed Internet
- 198 million Internet users = 68.4% Â of USA population
- Thus 31.6% never use the Internet – of that number (domestic/overall)
- 16.7%/47.2% = don’t need/not interested
- 38.9%/8.6% = too expensive
- 22.3% = lack of equipment
- 4% = lack of skill
- Home dialup users won’t upgrade because:
- 7.3% = don’t need/not interested
- 41.3% =too expensive (22.3% rural / 27.6% urban)
- 11% of rural users had no upgrade option
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