| Re: Middle Class Goes Broadband As Price Falls |
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> By PETER SVENSSON AP Technology Writer
> NEW YORK (AP) -- Middle- and working-class Americans signed up for
> high-speed Internet access in record numbers in the past year,
> apparently lured by a price war among phone companies.
> Broadband adoption increased 59 percent from March last year to March
> 2006 among U.S. households with incomes between 30,000ドル and 50,000,ドル
> according to a survey to be released Monday by the Pew Internet and
> American Life Project.
> It increased 40 percent in households making less than 30,000ドル a
> year. Among blacks, it increased 121 percent, according to the study.
> Middle- and lower-income households still lag higher-income households
> when it comes to broadband adoption. Among the 30,000ドル-50,000ドル
> households, 43 percent now have broadband, compared to 68 percent for
> those making more than 75,000ドル.
> Overall, 42 percent of adult Americans, or 84 million people, have
> broadband, compared to 30 percent a year ago.
> Phone companies last year started slashing prices for broadband
> service that uses regular phone line to establish a digital subscriber
> line, or DSL. Both Verizon Communications Inc. and AT&T
> Inc. introduced 14ドル.99 per month offers.
Wait until the permanent prices kick in at the end of the promotional
period.