Home adoption rates from Pew « Blandin on Broadband

So after hitting a plateau, it looks like home adoption rates are bumping up again. According to Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project, 63% of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, a 15% increases from a year earlier.

The even happier news is that it’s the traditionally offline crowd that’s getting on the broadband bandwagon: Broadband usage among adults ages 65 or older grew from 19% in May, 2008 to 30% in April, 2009. Overall, respondents reporting that they live in homes with annual household incomes below $30,000 experienced a 34% growth in home broadband adoption from 2008 to 2009...