Those who don’t want broadband Internet

Jacob — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:05:46 +0000

According to a Slashdot article, 62% of Americans who access the Internet with a slow, dial-up modem, don’t want to upgrade to a high-speed connection.

This may seem alarming to many. Why wouldn’t people want a faster connection to the Internet? I think cost is the biggest factor. I keep seeing TV commercials for dial-up accounts for under $10 per month. A broadband connection, on the other hand, would cost at least two or three times that amount. Why should people pay perhaps another $150 per year just to download their email and favorite recipes a few seconds faster?

Interestingly, about 3% of the visitors to this website access it through a dial-up modem.

Another interesting stat, for an e-commerce site that I run, dial-up visitors generate the highest per visit value. Dial-up visitors are more likely to make a larger purchase than broadband visitors.

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Jacob — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 07:35:03 +0000

ldsWebguy recently blogged about the growth of broadband usage. He was very wise, I think, in not overreacting to the unprecedented rates of the growth. We need to continue to remember all the dial-up modem users out there and that they aren’t able to access Internet content at premium speeds.

I think websites sometimes neglect out dial-up friends for at least these two reasons:

Those in the web design industry are very likely to be accessing the Internet over broadband connections. Because the creators and authors of Internet websites have such a fast connection to the Internet, they tend to forget how slow downloads take for dial-up users. The content and websites they create are then larger and take longer for dial-up users to download.
An increasing number of trend-setting websites sell products, and their customers who can afford their products are the same people who are more likely to afford broadband Internet connections. In free-market enterprise, consumer-producer communication happens monetarily. Thus, those who can afford high-speed Internet also have a louder market voice to commercial Internet content providers.

Only conscious efforts on the part of web designers to keep sites slim and fast will keep the web accessible for everyone.

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