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It may well be more than half considering Pew made an odd decision to exclude 3G and even 4G cell phone networks from its definition of "high-speed internet."
by massysett 12y ago
It may well be more than half considering Pew made an odd decision to exclude 3G and even 4G cell phone networks from its definition of "high-speed internet."
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/29/how-pew-research-calculates-broadband-adoption/ http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/08/29/how-pew-rese...
To be fair this may not have much effect on their results now, as they say only 10% of their respondents had a smartphone but no home internet; even so, for many people cell phones give the best value and as wireless networks improve and get cheaper I bet more people drop expensive cable operators in favor of wireless--or, alternatively, people who just never saw the need for wired home internet will say "oh, this Facebook thing is neat, I can keep in touch with family and do it right here on my phone."
- snowwrestler 12y agoThe WashPo article takes this into account by attempting to ding Burton for targeting "desktops first", when lower income families are more likely to access the web via phone. But my understanding is the new Reading Rainbow will be a website, meaning it will work fine on phones if it follows modern web standards.