Internet

摘要

More Americans are adopting broadband, NTIA said in a Thursday blog post (http://1.usa.gov/13est4I).n“As of October 2012, 72.4 percent of American households (88 million households) have high-speed Internet atnhome — a 3.8 percentage point (5.5 percent) increase over the July 2011 figure." NTIA emphasized the prioritynof broadband adoption and referred to its $4 billion broadband stimulus efforts and $250 million in grants forndigital literacy and to provide discounted computers. It also highlighted its Broadband Adoption Toolkit. Thendata come jointly from NTIA and the Economics and Statistics Administration. “We will soon release the newestnedition of the Digital Nation series of reports on broadband adoption and Internet use in America,” NTIAnsaid. “The new report — Exploring the Digital Nation: America’s Emerging Online Experience — presentsnresults based on a July 2011 data collection that, for the first time in eight years, gathered extensive informationnon what Americans actually do online. Later this year, we plan to publish more detailed results of the Octobern2012 data collection.”