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Home Broadband Growth Doubles with 42% of all Americans on High-Speed – DSL overtakes Cable – US Broadband Penetration Jumps to 71.8% Among Active Internet Users – June 2006 Bandwidth Report

Home broadband users grew by 40% from March 2005 to March 2006 in the US, twice the growth rate of the year before. As of March 2006, 42% of all Americans had a broadband connection at home, according to a recent study by Pew Internet (Horrigan 2006). 35% of all Internet users have posted content to the Internet, with the majority of new content posted by broadband users. DSL has passed cable in the US, and broadband penetration among active Internet users jumped 1.32 percentage points to 71.76% in May 2006.

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