Consumers Losing Interest In High Speed Internet?
from the and-so-it-goes dept
Just as it was looking like high speed internet connections were finally taking off, a new study has come out saying that the adoption rate is likely to slow down. It turns out that many people are quite satisfied with dialup, while plenty of others say cable modems and DSL still aren't available where they live. I wish there was more of an explanation as to why dialup users didn't want broadband. My guess is the price is still too high for many people, who don't see why it's worth it. Update: More data on this study shows that it often depends on what people use the internet for that determines whether or not they want to move up from dialup. Not surprising.
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Rural Electrification Commission
So it is with broadband -- either the government should provide massive subsidies (which is unlikely), or people will enjoy life without super-spam. Spammers of the future will be sure to take advantage of broadband to bring even more annoying messages.
At what point will wi-fi technologies of the future learn to make use of ubiquitous wavelengths (e.g. shortwave, very long waves) so we have fewer physical constraints?
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Course people will always be as cheap as possible. I'm still amused/amazed when I find the number of people I know who use NetZero as their only provider.
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Bandwidth just isn't that useful to most people, or it bears the potential for more trouble than it's worth.
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did your price go down? Mine went up!
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Poor logic in marketing dept.
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