Broadband take-up by U.S. households and businesses is among the strongest in the world, at least three times larger than the 20-percent level claimed by a European Commission spokesman quoted by the NYT. The number cited in the article is simply wrong.
The Pew Research and Internet Life Project reported in June that 63 percent of U.S. households have broadband access. Leichtman Research Group research points to a level greater than two-thirds. Among those who don’t subscribe to broadband, only 17-percent cite “lack of availability” as the reason for not connecting. Most often, non-subscribers are “late adopters” who say broadband is not relevant to their lives or who do not own computers.
The NYT reliance on the mistaken number creates a false impression. It also ignores U.S. fiber deployment, mobile broadband adoption and next generation wireless services rolling out already on this side of the pond.
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