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Internet Videos Spawn Performance Anxiety – Rural-Urban Broadband Gap Closing – US Broadband Penetration at 66.7% Among Active Internet Users – February 2006 Bandwidth Report

Streaming media is hot, but servers and users are even hotter. As higher bandwidth content streams to more bandwidth-hungry users quality of service can suffer. Some industry experts are wondering if the existing infrastructure can scale to handle the load. Meanwhile, the rural-urban broadband gap is closing according to PEW Internet. The US continued its inexorable climb to 66.67% in broadband penetration among active Internet users in January 2006.

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Broadband Buyers Dominate Online – Europe’s Digital Divide – US Broadband Penetration Grows to 55.5% in January – February 2005 Bandwidth Report

Broadband users outpurchased narrowband users by over 2 to 1 over the holidays, according to a recent survey by Nielsen/NetRatings. While women now outpace men in European Internet uptake, the digital divide remains for age, education, and income, according to a new survey by the European Commission. In January, broadband penetration among active Internet users in the U.S. grew by 0.78 percentage points to 55.47%. 44.53% of US home users dial into the Internet with “narrowband” connections of 56Kbps or less.

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