More Americans are adopting broadband, NTIA said in...
More Americans are adopting broadband, NTIA said in a Thursday blog post (http://1.usa.gov/13est4I). “As of October 2012, 72.4 percent of American households (88 million households) have high-speed Internet at home -- a 3.8 percentage point (5.5 percent) increase over the…
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July 2011 figure.” NTIA emphasized the priority of broadband adoption and referred to its $4 billion broadband stimulus efforts and $250 million in grants for digital literacy and to provide discounted computers. It also highlighted its Broadband Adoption Toolkit. The data come jointly from NTIA and the Economics and Statistics Administration. “We will soon release the newest edition of the Digital Nation series of reports on broadband adoption and Internet use in America,” NTIA said. “The new report -- Exploring the Digital Nation: America’s Emerging Online Experience -- presents results based on a July 2011 data collection that, for the first time in eight years, gathered extensive information on what Americans actually do online. Later this year, we plan to publish more detailed results of the October 2012 data collection."