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"By some measures, we have fairly wide deployment of broadband service. According to J.P. Morgan, 73% of households have cable modem service available, and 45% of households have access to DSL. Combined, broadband availability is estimated to be this year almost 85%. The intriguing statistic is that though this many households have availability,only 12% of these households have chosen to subscribe."
(FCC Chairman Michael Powell in a speech to the National Summit on Broadband Deployment; Oct. 25, 2001)
"In terms of the number of high-speed lines, Michigan ranked 10th among the states. (T)here were 1,105,638 kilometers (or 687,043 miles) of total fiber optic cable deployed in Michigan as of December 1999."
(Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Nov. 2, 2001)
78% of households have access to cable modem high-speed service today.
45% of households have DSL available today.
Combined, 85% of households can access broadband services today.
Only 12.5% of households are subscribing today.
Source: J.P. Morgan; FCC Chairman Michael Powell, Oct. 25, 2001
41.5% of U.S. households were online as of August 2000.
51% of U.S. households had computers as of August 2000.
8.7 million U.S. households had computers but did not use them to access the Internet. The most common reason given for not having access was that it was not wanted./p>
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce Report, October 2000
