John Horrigan
John Horrigan
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Internet use provides online Americans a path to resources, such as access to people who may have the right information to help deal with family health crises or find a new job. When you need help these days, you don't need a bugle to call the cavalry, you need a big buddy list.
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That wasn't the case even four or five years ago. It's a wake-up call to traditional media sources to keep working at integrating online news into how they provide news generally.
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The low-hanging fruit of early adopters is gone. And the remaining dial-up population seems unenthusiastic in terms of the Internet, so mathematically, that makes for a smaller fruitful pool for providers to select from.
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The low-hanging fruit of early adopters is gone, ... And the remaining dial-up population seems unenthusiastic in terms of the Internet, so mathematically, that makes for a smaller fruitful pool for providers to select from.
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If my mother can set up her own broadband connection and she did then it has become a technology that is reasonably user-friendly to everybody. As more and more people go to the Internet just to pass the time, just for fun, it becomes a destination, just like turning on the TV traditionally has been.
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Existing broadband users were the early adopters who used to pay for the dial-up wait and they got impatient with it, which is why they switched over to broadband, ... We see a slowing down in broadband growth partly because most of the low-hanging fruit of early adopters have been harvested by broadband providers.
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The migration to broadband is happening more slowly for dial-up users in 2005 than 2002. With fewer new internet users coming online these days, the stock of potential broadband subscribers is not being replenished.
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The Internet does help spur traditional means of staying in touch.
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The fact that you had this U.S. domestic crisis and people turning to international news sources is interesting.
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When you need help these days, you don't need a bugle to call the cavalry, you need a big buddy list.
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This is still technology that does require a certain capacity to self-troubleshoot. The switching cost could just be the technical aspect of doing the setup, and often you have to switch your e-mail address. These are people who are older, less educated and less adept to go through the process.
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Thirty-four percent of people said the Internet played a crucial role, they got advice and support from other people. Thirty percent said they got information online to compare options.
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People do benefit from information they get online, whether it's health care or information on government services or just social connections from e-mail. We've found that broadband connections tend to magnify those impacts.
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The broadband difference is now permeating the news environment. High-powered Internet users are heavily into other media sources as well, but the pre-eminent place of online news suggests that it shapes their off-line information choices in an important way.