b_griffin --
Thanks for your comment. Given your deadline, I will get right to the point.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project said in an August 2003
study that 85% of home Internet users in the DC metro area used
dial-up connections, 8% used high-speed cable modem connections and 4%
were DSL users as of the end of 2002.
So that you have an "apples-to-apples" comparison, note that the study
also indicates that the national percentages as of the end of 2002
were 82% dial-up, 10% cable and 5% DSL.
I am going to give you two sources for the information since a
secondary source I have found may be more convenient for you to access
quickly than the primary source.
This secondary source is a Web page of the Alliance for Public
Technology which cites the percentages from the Pew Study and provides
text and graphical representations of related data in conveniently
accessible form:
APT Publications: The Changing Telecom Landscape In The National Capital Area
http://www.apt.org/publica/changing-tele-landscp.html
Now, below is a link to a PDF file of the 105-page Pew study. I hope
that you will have no problem navigating this large file. The
information that interests you is on page 18 of the report (which is
page 28 of the PDF file). Here is the relevant quote from the report:
"When users in the National Capital hook up to the Web from home, 85%
of them do so via a standard dial-up connection, the second highest
rate of any region (in the South, 86% of users have a dial-up
connection). An additional 8% have a cable modem, and about 4% use a
DSL line. By comparison, 82% of users nationally use a standard
dial-up modem, 10% have a cable modem, and 5% have a DSL line."
Internet and American Life: Internet Use By Region In The United States
http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Regional_Report_Aug_2003.pdf
As you probably know, you will need Adobe Reader to access the file.
In the unlikely event that this program is not installed on your
computer, it can be downloaded at this link conveniently and at no
cost:
Adobe Reader
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html
Because of your time constraints, I am posting this information now.
Unless you tell me differently, I will assume that you would also like
a more current estimate of broadband penetration nationally. I will
look for this information and post it as a clarification of the
answer.
Search Strategy:
I first checked the FCC's website, which is my usual first step in
looking for information like this. However, the relevant regional
information you need does not appear to be posted there (although
there are periodic printed FCC industry reports that probably contain
it, although possibly of no more current vintage that the information
I found).
I then used the following Google search, which led me (with its first
"hit") to the Alliance For Public Technology Report, which then led me
to the primary source:
cable dsl broadband percent "washington dc metro OR metropolitan area"
://www.google.com/search?num=30&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&q=cable+dsl+broadband+percent+%22washington+dc+metro+OR+metropolitan%22
Based on your comment, I am confident that this is the information you
are seeking, and I hope that it is timely. As I said, I will try to
supplement it with more current national percentages very soon.
markj-ga |
