From this article [1] written in 2019, I have gleaned that of the 27% of the Americans that do not pay for broadband, 50% say that cost is a factor and 21% say

From this article [1] written in 2019, I have gleaned that of the 27% of the Americans that do not pay for broadband, 50% say that cost is a factor and 21% say cost is THE factor. I can agree that the costs are ridiculous (Comcast keeps raising my prices), but that isn't exactly the same thing as "being unable to afford it". 22% say it's because service is not available (or unacceptable) and 7% say that's the only reason. I didn't have broadband until I moved out (this was long after broadband was widely available), dial-up was the only option because AT&T never bothered to install the equipment that would enable DSL for our address. Today, 15 years later, their only options aside from dial-up are cellular data plans and satellite Internet, which are sub-par, prohibitively expensive, or both. 1. https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/06/13/mobile-technology-and-home-broadband-2019/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2019/06/13/mobile-techn...