The State of BroadBand Adoption

There is a typo in the third image (Interct). Just letting you know

Awesome post though, very informative and easy to read.

Excellent info graphic. Bridging the digital divide should absolutely be a priority at the federal level. Everyone should have access to Broadband; the problems of course are, what do you cut spending on instead to make it happen? I don't have a good answer to that question, and it will be hard to find one that satisfies everyone

It was interesting to see some of the direct benefits of broadband laid out at the bottom. Fascinating stuff

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This doesnt even begin to mention the monopolies that Time Warner Cable has in the great many cities it does business in. Ask them WHY they wont allow a competitor, keep raising their rates – while lowering their service quality and in cities where they DO have competition, the Time Warner customers have excellent quality with massive download speeds AND upload speeds. Go ahead, ask them. You'll get the standard corporate BS answer that any fool can see right through tho.

44% of Americans don't have broadband?! I thought dialup only existed for those very few people who live in remote areas. If I may make a plug for our home province, New Brunswick, Canada has 100% of its population accessing broadband since June 2009.

Where does satellite internet figure into these stats? Is that considered broadband or dialup? Because the speed is somewhere between the two in reality.

I'm assuming (and I could be wrong) that it's included in the broadband as it's fairly fast.

Jeff, is it really 100%? Likely due to the presence of Barett ExploreNet (Satellite), right?

Yes, Barret Xplore would be part of it in remote areas. There is also Fibre to the home covering 2 cities, Fredericton and Saint John, and I believe rolling out to Moncton soon. Here's an article I found on it: http://ht.ly/2umsV I was wrong about it being as far back as June 2009.

Nice post. What tool did you use for creating the charts? Thankyou

@QuestionMark trade secrets – sorry

@@jeffroach Very cool!

@Simon Mills Thx Simon, will get that fixed. Cheers.

Expanding affordable high-speed internet access to everybody should not be the government’s top priority. The government could, however, include the expansion of high-speed internet in the infrastructure of the country, thus it is something to be incorporated, not expanded.

Whereas dial-up processes through sound, double conversion in telephone lines, lags and is a form of technology that has not seen improvement in years, broadband is a newer and high speed connection that goes through cable or dsl (which overcomes the double conversion process despite going through telephone lines). Some reasons why people should switch are that websites are becoming larger and integrating applications (under the assumption that broadband is prominent) such as videos that take longer to load due to its complexity and emails also contain large attachments that dial-up connections cannot support/send as fast as broadband. Security updates are also important for computers and in today’s world, some updates are several hundred megabytes unlike in the past where dial-up was more prominent. Nevertheless, distributing broadband connection shouldn’t rest as one of the government’s top priorities as information can always be accessed through different mediums given enough effort and other issues such as healthcare and hunger require some much needed attention.

No big surprise here… It should only get cheaper and better. As much as I know that companies like AT&T and other internet providers wouldn’t approve, there should be Wi-Fi zones in large metropolitan cities.