8 in 10 US Households Access the Internet at Home or by Phone, Reports LRG
Eighty-three percent of U.S. households get internet service at home, same as in 2013, with 81 percent getting broadband service, Leichtman Research Group reported. Broadband reaches 98 percent of households with internet service at home, it said. Among households without…
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internet service, 49 percent don't use a computer at home. The most common reason for not getting web service at home is lack of perceived need (cited by 46 percent of survey respondents), followed by cost (17 percent), internet access via smartphone instead (11 percent), and availability issues (9 percent). Just over three-fourths of adults access the internet via smartphone vs. just over half five years ago, and 9 percent of households get internet service only on a smartphone, up from 3 percent in 2013. Some 92 percent of households access the internet either at home or by smartphone. A November-December phone survey included 1,153 U.S. households.