Broadband vs dial-up
p2p news / p2pnet: Broadband is where it’s at for a lot of people, but it’s not the be-all and end-all and the most common reason US consumers don’t buy into it is: it’s too expensive.
So says a Yankee Group survey which goes on that despite promotional price cuts for DSL, “which often cover slower connection speeds and eventually expire, shooting the price up,” broadband is more costly than dial-up, especially for truly high speeds.
“Presumably, dial-up consumers have little need for tasks beyond e-mail, IM and simple Web browsing, which are doable through broadband, and want to keep their monthly expenses low,” says eMarketer.
But, “The Yankee Group estimates that dial-up will gradually decline through the rest of the decade, accounting for less than 20 million online households by 2009, far less than the 65.7 million broadband households in the US by that time,” says the story, adding:
“This means dial-up will represent less than 30% of all households with Internet access. Broadband will gain not only from dial-up’s decline, but also attract those users who are new subscribers to Web access.”
Also See:
eMarketer – High-Speed Hesitation , February 17, 2006
February 17th, 2006 at 9:34 pm
Believe me, some of us don’t only use dialup for such lame purposes. We’re stuck in the eBook warez era.
February 18th, 2006 at 12:05 am
This must be an American thing. In the UK at least the price of DSL is equal to, in some cases less than, that of most dial-up, plus lots of companies offer low-useage, lower-speed DSL for not much, a damn sight better than dial-up, yet not so fast as you’d waste bandwidth.