Tuesday, April 18, 2006
State-by-State Broadband Penetration
Crain's has published the top 25 most wired states in the U.S. Nevada's number 3! Alaska is #20, well into the top half. Wonder what the bottom half looks like. [The numbers are in the public domain. Anybody?]
Thanks to Jim Baller for pointing me to this important article.
Thanks to Jim Baller for pointing me to this important article.
Technorati Tags: Broadband-per-capita, F2C, statistics
Comments:
That table is relatively meaningless. Number of Internet lines per state is of zero value to anybody, because the population of each state varies. That figures should be expressed as "Internet lines per person", or as the rightmost column says it, "People per Internet line". Yet that isn't particularly interesting, because the implication is that all of those people are sharing that Internet line.
A more interesting statistic would be "% Households with Internet access" and "% Households with broadband Internet (>512Kbps)". A tiny fraction of people don't have landlines, so %dialup is an expression of computer ownership and interest in Internet information. Many rural people have zero access to broadband at any reasonable price (e.g. me, but I prove the rule.)
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A more interesting statistic would be "% Households with Internet access" and "% Households with broadband Internet (>512Kbps)". A tiny fraction of people don't have landlines, so %dialup is an expression of computer ownership and interest in Internet information. Many rural people have zero access to broadband at any reasonable price (e.g. me, but I prove the rule.)
