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Report: U.S. Home Internet Adoption Rate Projected to Slow

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on February 23, 2006 - 3:21am.
Dallas - Of the estimated 39 million U.S. homes without Internet access, only 2 million said they are planning to subscribe in 2006, contributing to overall U.S. Internet adoption growth of just one percent in 2006, from 63% to 64%, according to a report from market research firm Parks Associates. Only 8 million of the 39 million homes without Internet access even own a computer, although 14 million reported having access to the Internet at work or other locations. Some 300,000 households said they might subscribe if services were cheaper. "We are clearly facing a problem of demand, not supply," said Parks Associates research director John Barrett. "Computers and Internet service have never been cheaper, yet many households still show little enthusiasm for the technology." The firm found that among households not interested in subscribing to an Internet service at any price, 31% said their Internet access at work was sufficient, while another 18% claimed, "I am not interested in anything on the Internet."
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Impact of Hurricane Katrina Slows Some Major U.S. Websites

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on September 1, 2005 - 6:30am.
San Mateo, Calif. -- As Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast, several popular websites had difficulty maintaining their performance and availability, according to new information from Keynote Systems, a provider of site performance measurement services. For a period of about three hours on Sunday night, some of the graphic content on Weather.com was not available, and the availability of other content on the site also dipped for about 35 minutes on Monday morning. Both CNN.com and USAToday.com, although both stable and available, also showed some degradation of performance on Monday morning, with home pages taking up to 10 seconds to load, or about three times as long as normal. In addition, the National Weather Service's site went from its usual availability rate of 94%-98% to just 29% for a short period. Keynote's performance index measures the average download time for the home pages of 40 important sites from the 25 largest metropolitan areas of the U.S.
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Report: Global Internet Growth Set to Slow to 49% in 2005

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on August 26, 2005 - 6:34am.
Paris -- A new report by consultancy firm Telegeography Research shows that the Internet is growing at a much slower pace than it has in recent years. The report estimated that the amount of Internet traffic on backbone cables between countries would grow by about 49% this year, compared to 104% growth last year. Telegeography attributed the slowing pace mostly to a global slowdown in the numbers of people signing up for high-speed Internet services. The consultancy firm also said that the Internet was maturing, in the sense that the number of people going online for the first time is slowing, while those already online are using the Internet as much as they are likely to. A stabilization in prices for Internet backbone access has also contributed to the drop-off, Telegeography said.
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