By Ann Treacy | Blandin on Broadband
September 22, 2011
Over the summer, Connected Nation spoke with more than 12,000 residents across ten states (including Minnesota) to inquire about their adoption and use of broadband service. Over the next few weeks, they will be releasing more data from the reports, but this week we get a sneak preview that focuses on adoption in low-income households with children…
* Only 37% of low-income minority households with children have broadband at home, and only 46% of all low-income households without children have broadband at home
* We estimate that 17 million children do not have broadband at home – and that 7.6 million of these children live in low-income households. The disproportionate adoption gap has serious implications for technology education policy
* 40% of low-income households do not own a computer (compared to only 9% of all others)
* For low-income households, the cost of access and computer ownership is by far the most-cited reason why they do not adopt broadband
They have a table that highlights some of the data on why low-income households don’t have broadband.
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