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%  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