New Data Suggests Americans Abandoning Wired Internet Access

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New Data Suggests Americans Abandoning Wired Internet Access

By CircleID Reporter
April 19, 2016, 6:06 pm PDT Views: 7,864 Add Comment

According to the latest computer and Internet use data released by NTIA, Americans as a whole are becoming less likely to have residential broadband. NTIA’s Chief Economist, Giulia McHenry, in blogs post today wrote: “Americans’ rapid move toward mobile Internet service appears to be coming at the expense of home broadband connections.”

McHenry further reports: “According to the data, three-quarters of American households using the Internet at home in 2015 still used wired technologies for high-speed Internet service, including cable, DSL, and fiber-optic connections. However, this represents a sizable drop in wired home broadband use, from 82 percent of online households in July 2013 to 75 percent two years later. Over this same period, the data also shows that the proportion of online households that relied exclusively on mobile service at home doubled between 2013 and 2015, from 10 percent to 20 percent.”

Use of Mobile Internet Service Alone to Go Online at Home by Family Income, Percent of Households Using the Internet at Home, 2013-2015 (Source: NTIA)

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