Minnesota has increased its broadband adoption by six percentage points...
Minnesota has increased its broadband adoption by six percentage points since 2011, Connect Minnesota said Wednesday, releasing its 2012 residential survey findings (http://bit.ly/Yo7Li8). The group surveyed 1,201 residents last fall in collecting this data. In 2012, mobile Internet usage rose…
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from 39 to 51 percent primarily due to residents’ desire to access the Internet remotely, Connect Minnesota found. In Minnesota, 78 percent of households subscribe to broadband now compared to 72 percent in 2011, according to the survey data. It also showed that rural residents are less likely to own desktop computers and that data caps don’t seem to be a particularly large barrier for those subscribing to mobile broadband. There are still 904,000 adults who lack high-speed Internet, it said.