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Depends on whose statistics you read. I've read a 2006 report showing dial-up users being 22%. Whichever number, it's still a lot. Parks Associates - Internet Finding Few Newcomers in 2006
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Well, you're maybe more right than I am, but you're wrong in a sense. I looked at the OECD 2007 stats. 53% of US homes have broadband, 21% use dialup, and 25% have NO internet connection. I saw the 53% with broadband and made the erroneous jump in my head to 47% being on dialup, which isn't the case.
However, if you look at all US households with an internet connection, roughly 2/3 have broadband and roughly a third are still on dialup. So the truth is somewhere between what I initially said and what you said.
Still really disgusting, if you ask me, especially when compared to Canada (they have the same pop density issues we do, at least to some degree), the UK, Japan, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Norway, Poland . . . .
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US Falls to 25th in Broadband Penetration Worldwide - US Broadband Growth Below OECD Average - April 2007 Bandwidth Report