Broadband Usage Growing Even As Gaps Persist

A new report says that broadband usage is growing, especially among the college-educated-white-asian-over-$100k crowd. Surprisingly, people struggling to make ends meet aren’t spending their money on broadband internet. What? Food is more important than high speed internet? The study even claimed that there were people that didn’t have broadband because they "didn’t need it."

The U.S. still faces a significant gap in residential broadband use that breaks down along incomes, education levels and other socio-economic factors, even as subscriptions among American households overall grew sevenfold between 2001 and 2009. What's more, even when controlling for key socio-economic characteristics, the U.S. continues to confront a racial gap in residential broadband use, with non-Hispanic white Americans and Asian-Americans more likely to go online using a high-speed connection than African-Americans and Hispanics.

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