Broadband and Me

US broadband penetration slows

BBC NEWS | Technology | US broadband take-up slows down

A little surprisingly US broadband penetration slowed in the last year:

broadband take-up has grown by just 3% in the last year.

Of the 67% of Americans online, 53% of them are now online via a broadband connection.

The remaining half are going to be harder to convert thinks report author John Horrigan.

"There are fewer people hankering for high speed now and that means less pent-up demand for broadband," he said.

Reading the article I can see why it would slow down, but it doesn't augur well for the UK market which seems to follow the US by about year to 18 months.

The digital divide mentioned in the article can only get worse, as more organisations seek to put things online and not offer via other means. Personally I haven't been convinced by government backed programmes to increase penetration or support less well off.