Among US households with incomes of $30,000 and less, only 54% have access to broadband at home, says Kathryn Zickuhr, a research associate with Pew Research Center’s Internet Project.
Slow Broadband Internet Speeds Vex Nation’s Schools
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As public schools nationwide embrace instruction via iPads, laptops and other technologies, many are realizing they lack the necessary broadband speed to perform even simple functions. This is crimping classroom instruction as more teachers pull lesson plans off the Internet and use bandwidth-hungry programming.
Why Comcast and other cable ISPs aren’t selling you gigabit Internet
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Gigabit-class broadband is capturing the imagination of Internet users throughout the country. Cable companies haven't been ignoring this consumer demand… but they haven't done anything to satisfy it, either.
Latest Pew Study Shows 70 Percent of US Has Broadband. But Access Is Still Unequal
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Pew released survey results showing that the percentage of Americans with home “high speed broadband” connections has ticked up from 66 to 70 percent since April 2012. Pew calls this a “small but statistically significant rise.” The news of an overall rise in “high-speed broadband” adoption will likely be trumpeted by America’s giant communications companies and policymakers as the bright spot: “We’re not doing so badly!” But before we start celebrating, it’s a good idea to look closely at the results.
Why don’t Facebook and Google just embrace that they’re monetizing the third world?
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You’d be hard pressed to find many fooled that Internet.org is anything but a Trojan horse for some big tech companies to access new customers.
Home Broadband 2013
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As of May 2013, 70% of American adults ages 18 and older have a high-speed broadband connection at home, according to a nationally representative survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
Obama’s school Internet plan could derail FCC picks, former members warn
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Two former Republican members of Congress warned that President Obama's proposal to expand a federal Internet program for schools could derail two nominations to the Federal Communications Commission.
Broadband in the Home is No Longer Tied to the PC
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The personal computer (PC) has been the dominant tool for accessing all that broadband connectivity has to offer, basically since broadband was introduced in the 1990’s.