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Commentary
Dec 22, 2009Susannah Fox
64% of Latino adults ages 18 and older used the internet in 2008, compared with 54% of Latinos in 2006.
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More in: Race and Ethnicity , Digital Divide, Broadband
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Media Mention
Eric A. Taub, New York Times
Oct 28, 2009
Some of the highest growth rates in broadband use are happening among the elderly. The Pew Research Center found that broadband use for those 65 and older increased from 19 percent in May 2008 to 30 percent in April 2009. Since 2005, broadband use ha...
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More in: Seniors, Broadband
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Media Mention
Randall Stross, New York Times
Oct 19, 2009
ACCESS to a fast Internet connection has become more than a convenience. It’s being enshrined in some countries as a legal right of all citizens. Finland, for example, announced last week that it was moving up its timetable to next year from 2015 for...
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Media Mention
Grant Gross, PC World (IDG News Service)
Sep 22, 2009
The FCC is about midway through a year-long effort to create a national broadband plan, and Blair Levin, executive director of the FCC's omnibus broadband initiative, said Tuesday he hopes he hasn't heard all the good ideas yet. "There's a lot of cap...
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More in: Broadband, Race and Ethnicity , Mobile
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Presentation
Sep 22, 2009Susannah Fox
Pew Internet research shows that, in politics and in health care, participation matters as much as access.
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More in: Broadband, Future of the Internet, Mobile, Health
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Presentation
Sep 15, 2009Aaron Smith
Research specialist Aaron Smith will be a panelist at the first panel of BroadbandCensus.com's series “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan.” The panelists will consider the FCC’s summer broadband workshops, and how individuals and entit...
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Media Mention
Peter Svensson and Joelle Tessler, Associated Press
Sep 13, 2009
The national stimulus package passed by Congress in February may have been too enthusiastic about spending money on one particular project: figuring out where broadband Internet access is available and how fast it is.
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When the Pew Interne...
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More in: Broadband, Communities