New Media Institute (NMI) - Internet Facts, Statistics, Research & Analysis Articles - Internet Connectivity en-us http://www.newmedia.org N/A http://www.newmedia.org news@newmedia.org 20 47% of Adult Americans Have a Home Broadband Connection as of Early 2007 http://www.newmedia.org/articles/84/1/47-of-Adult-Americans-Have-a-Home-Broadband-Connection-as-of-Early-2007/Page1.html Nearly half (47%) of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home, according to a February 2007 survey conducted by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 42% in early 2006 and 30% in early 2005. Among individuals who use the internet at home, 70% have a high-speed connection while 23% use dialup.  The 12% growth rate from 2006 to 2007 represents trails the 40% increase in the 2005 to 2006 timeframe, when many people in the middle-income and older age groups acquired home broadband connections. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Sun, 23 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700 Europeans More Likely than Americans to Use Mobile Phones to Access the Internet http://www.newmedia.org/articles/24/1/Europeans-More-Likely-than-Americans-to-Use-Mobile-Phones-to-Access-the-Internet/Page1.html This innovative ongoing tracking study is designed to analyze and understand how consumers across six countries in Europe and America (U.S., France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK) access Internet content from their mobile phones.  It shows that 29 percent of European Internet users within the aforementioned countries regularly access the Web from their mobile phones compared to only 19 percent in the U.S.  news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Mon, 23 Oct 2006 00:00:00 -0700 Home Broadband Penetration up 40% in Past Year http://www.newmedia.org/articles/9/1/Home-Broadband-Penetration-up-40-in-Past-Year/Page1.html Adoption of high-speed internet at home grew twice as fast in the year prior to March 2006 than in the same time frame from 2004 to 2005. Middle-income Americans accounted for much of the increase, along with African Americans and new internet users coming online with broadband at home. At the end of March 2006, 42% of Americans had high-speed at home, up from 30% in March 2005, or a 40% increase. news@newmedia.org (John Spagnuolo) Sun, 28 May 2006 00:00:00 -0700