Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL | reply to fAcEtIOUs
Re: Why US broadband adoption rate is lower Are there statistics anywhere for the percent of people who want broadband but have no access to it? |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | said by Zoder:Are there statistics anywhere for the percent of people who want broadband but have no access to it? NO! That's the #1 problem here!!
One would think that would be the most important statistic that the FCC would seek to determine. It would be the most telling indicator as to whether or not broadband deployment is "progressing in a timely manner", as required by the 1996 Telecomm Act. After all, if someone has BB available and doesn't want it, that's their decision, right?
But the issue is that the leadership at the FCC knows that the answer wouldn't be pretty. If they actually measured that number, they might be forced to do something, per the requirements of the Telecomm Act. And that is something the laissez faire ideologues at the FCC simply won't do. So they use bogus figures like the famous statistic "if one person in a zip code has broadband available, then everybody in that zip code has broadband available". Ideology is more important than reality. |
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hurfyPremium
join:2002-08-06
Spokane, WA | reply to Zoder
"nearly 60 percent of these dial-up users said they are not interested in switching to broadband"
He just gave it to you.
That would be the other 40 percent of the 21 percent of US households on dial-up. Do you have some other way to read that?
Or about 9.3 million households!
»www.census.gov/prod/1/pop/p25-1129.pdf shows about 111.1 million households est for 2007
So they have only deemed 20-something million people as unworthy. Only enough for a small coutry no biggie  |
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