FCC: 31% of Broadband Connections are Mobile [June '09 data]

 

The US regulator, FCC, published a new report with [old] data on internet access.

See "Internet Access Services: Status as of June 30, 2009" - here and a press release "FCC RELEASES NEW DATA ON INTERNET ACCESS SERVICES" - here.

The report summarizes information received from carriers (based on their Form 477 reports - explained here) on "Internet access connections over 200 kilobits per second (kbps) in at least one direction in service in the United States on June 30, 2009"

One of the charts [see below] shows the subscribership by access technology (for connections over 200 kbps in at least one direction to homes and businesses):

While fixed connections increased by 3% (to 78M) during H1 '09, the number of mobile wireless connections increased by 41%, from 25M to 35M and is now 31% of all connections (compared to 25% on Dec '08). FTTP connections were increased by 23% (included in the fixed connections growth).

UK comparison: A Recent Ofcom report shows the access technologies used by UK households with broadband service in Q12010 were: 8.5% used a mobile broadband service only 12.7% used fixed and mobile 78.8% use a fixed service only. See "Ofcom: 21% of Broadband Homes Use Mobile Broadband" - here.

See also "FCC Reports Monthly Data Consumption: 4G Users - 7GB, Broadband Users - 9GB" - here.