I've read in several places (but can't remember where) that those numbers were more than a little inflated... Largely by including phone-modem users.
Use of the word "broadband" yields more reasonable numbers, but even the broadband survey was taken back when "broadband" was defined as 1MB or better (which, if Alzheimers hasn't taken over fully, was early to mid- 2000's.) --Bruce On 07/18/2015 08:47 AM, Joshua Judson Rosen wrote: > On July 17, 2015 5:53:44 PM EDT, Joshua Judson Rosen <roz...@hackerposse.com> > wrote: >> (but, really--how come fiber is available in places like Wilton and >> Chichester >> before it's available in here? Is it normal for cities to be the >> cyber-boonies?) > Hmm...: > > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_access#Digital_divide> > > "In the United States, billions of dollars has been invested in efforts to > narrow the digital divide and bring Internet access to more people in > low-income and rural areas of the United States. Internet availability varies > widely state by state in the U.S. In 2011 for example, 87.1% of all New > Hampshire residents lived in a household where Internet was available, > ranking first in the nation." > _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
