Re: AOC: is there a single player component?

johns wrote:
Nope. 80% of Americans are still on modems. That
information comes from the Verizon hassle with ISPs,
and the modemers being able to just sit online with
no time-online charges. They pay their phone bills,
so the ISPs can get bent. Nobody much has gone
to broadband because of the extra online charges.
That 35% is somebodys hype. It ain't so. Google
the issue and see for yourself. If you are a modemer,
your ISP hates you ;-) Lately, the ISPs have been
spamming the crap out of their modem accounts
trying to drive them to broadband.

My bad, I think we were talking apples and oranges... Well, maybe oranges and nectarines. The total number might be pretty close to what you claim, but only if you are talking home connections, not total number of users. The numbers I am referring to are actual user statistics, which also include business, so there is probably a huge bias - there are so many large companies with broadband connections, the number of users would be naturally skewed to a higher percentage. And many home broadband connections have multiple simultaneous users, so they tend to bias the numbers up even more.

If you look at home connections, depending on who's doing the statistics, it ranges from the 20%-35% range... Seems everyone has a different method for determining who has high speed access, so the data varies dramatically. The quickest rising internet access sector seems to be the cable connections, and the forced industry switch to all digital by Feb of 2009 is only helping that rise.

CoinSpin
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