U.S. broadband adoption seems to have flattened markedly since about 2010. For some, that might represent a problem. But something else is happening. For a growing number of U.S. consumers, wireless broadband has become the preferred way of using broadband and the Internet, much as wireless has become the preferred way of using "voice."
In 2010, some noted a digital divide between white Americans and Hispanic Americans. Back then, it was noted that 45 percent of Latinos had a home broadband connection, compared with 65 percent of whites.
At the same time, 52 percent of black Americans had a home broadband connection.
But much has changed. mobile broadband is used by two thirds of all adult Internet users. Also, as many note, for many users, the smart phone and tablets have started to displace the desktop PC as the computing device used most often. That shifts demand, to a large extent, from fixed modes to mobile modes.
Many expect that multi-device data plans will enhance and encourage that shift, boosting use of tablets for mobile broadband access.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Mobile Broadband Changes "Broadband"
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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