An estimated 10 percent of Americans are surfing the net via dial-up connections, according to a report released Wednesday by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
Earlier this week, AOL said it would be raising the subscription fee for its dial-up service by 20 percent, starting at the end of July.
The Associated Press, in its posting on the report, cited this assessment by the report’s author, John Horrigan: “That (resistance to change) suggests that solving the supply problem where there are availability gaps is only going to go so far.”
Got dial-up and don’t want to give it up? You’re not alone.
The survey collected information from 2,251 U.S. residents, between April 8 and May 11.
And a lot of those people apparently see no compelling reason to change. The report indicates that those users are not itching to make a change to a speedier broadband connection in large part because, they say, broadband is too expensive.
Of this dial-up group, 35 percent cited the cost issue, while 19 percent say nothing will ever prompt them to change. Another subset–14 percent–say they’re still on dial-up because broadband is not available in their neighborhoods