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Middle Class Goes Broadband As Price Falls
By Larry Hendrick | May 30, 2006
It looks like a lot of people are getting high speed Internet, and most are doing it without government help. Hmmm … do you think the digital divide will mend itself before the cavalry can arrive?
My Way News - Middle Class Goes Broadband As Price Falls
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 and $50,000, 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 a year. Among blacks, it increased 121 percent, according to the study.
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