Middle class goes broadband as price falls
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Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year, apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.
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NEW YORK Broadband growth in the U.S. slowed last year, as nearly half of American adults now have a high-speed Internet connection at home, according to new research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Forty-seven percent of those consumers--seven out of 10 home Internet users--have broadband as compared to 23 percent who still rely on dial-up.
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SAN FRANCISCO - Technologies that extend the range of Wi-Fi wireless LANs are making that low-priced technology an option for broadband Internet access in U.S. rural areas with limited broadband options.
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By Andrew D. Smith, The Dallas Morning News  Mar. 6--Today marks the beginning of a battle for cable TV and broadband Internet customers around Dallas and Fort Worth -- a battle that may mean sharply lower prices for all consumers.   AT&T Inc.
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Internet phone service, a burgeoning technology that allows people to make cheap calls to almost anywhere over broadband connections, is getting a boost from retailers.
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Fings ain't what they used to be Broadband customers, who tend to be a bit Victor Meldrew at the best of times, are getting unhappier with the service they receive from internet service providers.â¦
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Silicon Valley is in danger of creating its own digital divide; the California high-tech region is losing its middle-class work force at a significant rate.
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JupiterResearch,  a leading authority on the impact of the Internet and emerging consumer  technologies on business, predicts that 70 percent of US homes --  some 86 million households -- will have  broadband Internet access by 2012.
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Not all of the cable company's broadband subscribers got a recent hike in bandwidth.
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The majority of Internet users in the U.S. have ditched dial-up, survey says.
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Nearly four years have passed since the peak of the fiber-optic boom, but overcapacity continues to plague carriers, and prices for bandwidth continue to fall. By Joanna Glasner.
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Broadband speed and price varies greatly across some of the world's most developed nations, says a report.
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High-speed Internet access is becoming more and more popular, study shows.
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LONDON - The UK took another step towards greater competition in and cheaper access to broadband technology as telecoms regulator Ofcom published its final proposals for local loop unbundling and ordered BT Group to cut the wholesale prices it charges
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A year ago, it seemed like just about every major U.S. city was drawing up ambitious plans to build wireless Internet networks so more people, both rich and poor, could have online access wherever they wanted. Now, economics is blurring the Utopian vision as city leaders and the companies proposing to build the Wi-Fi networks haggle over whether the projects make financial sense.
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By Aimie Pardas  TWO people who subscribed to tmnet's streamyx broadband service at a Parkson Grand outlet recently under the Streamyx Sign-Up @ Parkson programme not only got broadband Internet service but also walked away with an LG 32-inch LCD TV each.
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By the end of the year, broadband Internet use in the U.S. will cross the 50 percent mark, according to market research firm Parks Associates, with more than 60 million households connecting to the Internet at 200 kilobits per second or faster.