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Nearly three-quarters of Web surfers in the United States have a broadband Internet connection at home, up from just 57 percent a year ago, according to a study released on Wednesday by Nielsen/NetRatings. The number of dial-up users dropped to 28 percent from 43 percent over the past year, according to the May report statistics. The actual number of U.S. broadband home users rose to 102.5 million from about 78.5 million, while home dial-up users fell to just over 40 million from nearly 59 million. In the work place, broadband consumption was even higher at 90 percent saturation, up from 82 percent a year ago.
This is not good from the consumers side of things generally as the Cable companies are less inclined to use throttling and other "theft of service" methods.
