A new study from Parks Associates estimates U.S. residential broadband subscriptions will surpass 60 million households by year-end 2007, accounting for 55% of all U.S. households. Residential broadband surged 20% in 2006 to exceed 50 million U.S. households, according to the study.
Parks Associates also estimates there were networks in more than 22 million U.S. households.
The FCC claims (pdf), broadband penetration is way up, but that’s just wrong, says Free Press. The FCC counts broadband as anything above 200 kbps and full service as any zip code that has one person getting broadband.
The FCC would have us believe that U.S. Broadband connectivity grew 54% between June 05 and June 06 (from 42 to 65 million lines) because, in a giant data-fudge, the FCC is lumping 11 million cellular data (mobile broadband) accounts with its other broadband Internet access methods.
