Comments on: A Quarter of Americans Aren't On the Web

By: J.P.A.

J.P.A. — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:59:18 +0000

aren´t you thick and obtuse….. “this is America”… gosh you are pathetic……

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Broadband Growth Will Come From New Tech, Not New Adds – GigaOM — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:09:06 +0000

[...] email, a price decrease for barely broadband speeds will be welcome indeed — it could even spur a few laggards holding out on broadband because of pricing to step up. However, the big takeaway of the report is [...]

By: Government Enforces the Status Quo With Broadband Stimulus Bucks

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By: One-Third of U.S. Doesn’t Have Broadband

One-Third of U.S. Doesn’t Have Broadband — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:00:02 +0000

[...] in faster services. However, 37 percent didn’t feel a need to boost their speeds. In line with other surveys, Leichtman found that 3 percent of Internet subscribers say broadband is not available in their [...]

By: jan feldtmann

jan feldtmann — Tue, 19 May 2009 14:10:24 +0000

if the money that was pilfered in the government was put to use,then we could have better education ,and also be able to feed the people. then you could be online without the distractions.jan.

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Broadband: Damned Lies Edition — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:22:38 +0000

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By: Let’s Use Our Geekiness for Good! | The Click

Let’s Use Our Geekiness for Good! | The Click — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:40:50 +0000

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By: Gino

Gino — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:30:06 +0000

How many of these are the same ones who aren’t “ready” for DTV?

By: Philip Nealey » Blog Archive » Tuesday Odds And Ends

Philip Nealey » Blog Archive » Tuesday Odds And Ends — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 00:52:10 +0000

[...] – Study: A quarter of Americans aren’t on the web. (link) [...]

By: Marco

Marco — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 05:11:29 +0000

If you’re not in the information business, what do you REALLY get out of having an Internet connection? Let’s see:

email. Just make a phone call.
mp3s. Just buy CDs at Wal-Mart.
ebooks. Just buy paper books at Wal-Mart, or stick with the local newspaper and the Bible, if you can read at all.
remote IT work. Not everyone is a software engineer you know, some people work for a living.
remote language lesson. This is America dammit, are you a commie?
research libraries. if you live in the woods, you ain’t doing research on anything but which bait works best.
elderly. Just go live with your kids.
social networking. If you’re over 70 and you don’t know where your friends are, they’re dead.

Not that anyone I know lives like that, just saying. Amazon works fine over dialup but that doesn’t mean everybody reads a book a week.

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Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:08:25 +0000

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By: ghunda

ghunda — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:46:32 +0000

This is shoddy data without knowing more about the individuals surveyed (age, geographical area, income, etc). There is nothing to conclude from these datapoints except that 25% of Americans don’t use the web.

By: Stacey Higginbotham

Stacey Higginbotham — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:19:10 +0000

Naysayers, really? The web makes possible much more than entertainment. For example, my brother meets with a Chinese tutor (in China) via Skype many nights to learn Mandarin. Those who don’t buy airline tickets online are charged more for their transaction. There are plenty of people whose broadband connections allow them to work remotely without a loss of productivity. For people without access to research libraries or even decent schools, there’s a possibility of better education. For elderly people trying to stay independent, the web allows caregivers to monitor health as well as communicate. Broadband access offers much more than email and social networking, which is why it’s important to make sure it is accessible to a large portion of the population, and we show people why it’s useful.

By: Jesse Kopelman

Jesse Kopelman — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:22:29 +0000

@Joy Mari

You don’t see the relationship between illiteracy and lack of desire to go online are related!? I think you would be hard pressed to find people who grew up in the IT age who are readers yet don’t do a large percentage of their reading online.

By: tessG

tessG — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:49:12 +0000

It’s PRICE! That people do not get the benefit is telco propaganda.

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Broadband%20Barriers.pdf

“Though the outlines of Obama’s broadband stimulus plan are not yet clear, two barriers identified
above are likely targets of such a package: availability and price. These are the main issues for
about a third of the adult population currently without broadband service. Providing incentives to
build broadband infrastructure directly addresses the availability problem and could be of
particular help to Americans living in rural areas, where 24% of dial-up users say they cannot get
broadband because high-speed infrastructure doesn’t reach their home.