said by Drakemoore :

Deployment and adoption of high-speed Internet service in the U.S. is a success story that shouldn’t be portrayed as a failure because of misleading statistics -- Cable’s broadband service is available to at least 94 percent of all U.S. homes, McSlarrow pointed out. At the same time that broadband availability has increased, McSlarrow said, the speed of the service also has jumped while prices have declined."

94 Percent, Yeah right >.>

All raise their hand who thinks that's a load of crap

* Raises Hand*

said by Thaler :

*shrugs* If I had to do a rough guess, I'd say 50-60% myself. Whenever I have a relative move, usually they have broadband avaliable. However, there is also a good possiblity that they might find themselves in a tech void.

I'd say that 94% is accruate...if we count overpriced satellite ISP systems as true broadband. However, if we're judging on affordable consumer systems (ie. $25-40 per month) then it's around 50-60.

said by burger2000 :

I think whoever from the NCTA that made that comment meant that 94% of U.S. homes that are passed by cable plant have broadband internet service available.

So whoever stated this either misspoke, implied a very important fact, or is just plain misinformed/lying. I lean towards the first.

said by Fox McCloud :

Seriously though, would there be any reason that if you got cable TV service that you couldn't get cable internet service?