Broadband Majority in US

TheSync writes "NetworkWorldFusion has a report that the majority of US Internet users now connect using broadband, according to NetRatings. There are 63 million broadband users (51%) and 61 million (49%) dial-up users in the US. Broadband was most prevalent among people ages 18 to 20."

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About low numbers of broadband/high costs in US

[thephotoman]

There's a very simple reason for this: tech companies, including those offering bandwidth, love to seperate Americans from their money. It's a simple issue of the fact that a good chunk of the American populace is stupid enough to go for whatever they'll sell you at whatever prices you demand, as Americans have money. This mass of money and refusal to know anything outside of where to get food, drink, clothing, and shelter has caused the greedy executives (who know this information from experience) to restrict our bandwidth to super-slow speeds and raise our rates through the roof. Yeah, they make a good profit doing this. Most know that laying the cable isn't as expensive as they make it sound, and that the service isn't too hard to offer. They've seen Europe and Asia. They know what they can do. However, most Americans, who don't leave the country, and in fact barely know that the world isn't defined by our borders, don't know what the Internet providers can do at this time.

Of course, if you need an example of how Americans are more than willing to be ignorant of anything, take a look at our president. He's as willfully ignorant as most Americans. That's why so many people still support him...aside from those who know that their money allows them to control him. It's all a matter of collusion and pocketbook-raping the stupid, overmoneyed Americans.