{"id":893,"date":"2006-07-27T16:20:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/07\/27\/broadband-in-us-homes-continues-to-grow\/"},"modified":"2006-07-27T16:20:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T21:20:21","slug":"broadband-in-us-homes-continues-to-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/07\/27\/broadband-in-us-homes-continues-to-grow\/","title":{"rendered":"Broadband in US Homes Continues to Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C|Net&#39;s News.com is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/2100-1034_3-6098865.html?tag=nefd.top\" title=\"U.S. broadband adoption jumps 33 percent in 2005\">US high-speed internet access adoption increased 33%<\/a>  in 2005 over the previous year.&nbsp; According to the article, over 50 million broadband lines are now in service.<\/p>\n<p>The split between cable and DSL broadband did undergo a change during that year, however.&nbsp; While cable broadband still accounted for over 57.5 percent of last year&#39;s new connections, they did drop 3.5 percent from last year&#39;s new activations.&nbsp; DSL, with only 40.5 percent, gained 3.3 percent over the same time.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#39;t too surprising, as many consumers new to the market are being tempted with the lower-priced DSL service, despite those packages having an average slower download speed than entry-level cable packages.&nbsp; New services in areas where cable was the only broadband option available have helped the increase as well.<\/p>\n<p>For most consumers, though, the differences between cable broadband and DSL mean little, and therefore DSL will continue to grow with it&#39;s current package offerings that are generally equal or even cheaper in monthly costs than most major dial-up services such as America Online or Earthlink.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C|Net&#39;s News.com is reporting that US high-speed internet access adoption increased 33% in 2005 over the previous year.&nbsp; According to the article, over 50 million broadband lines are now in service. The split between cable and DSL broadband did undergo a change during that year, however.&nbsp; While cable broadband still accounted for over 57.5 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/2006\/07\/27\/broadband-in-us-homes-continues-to-grow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Broadband in US Homes Continues to Grow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meisterplanet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}