Our background research on the topic identified various statistics catering the internet connections in the United States. We've presented our findings in the research below.
DEMOGRAPHIC AND GEOGRAPHIC STATISTICS
- About 59% of all American broadband customers get internet service by the local cable provider while the other 29% use the internet through a Digital Subscriber Line Service (DSL). Around 9% of customers have fiber connections whereas only 3% have satellite and fixed wireless connections.
- In the United States, almost all urban residents (96%) have access to the internet with a high speed of 25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload or more; whereas only 4% of the urban population lack internet access. On the other hand, only 61% of rural American residents have access to high-speed internet of 25 Mbps download/3 Mbps upload while the remaining 39% don't.
- In the US, around 79% of white adults, 66% of African-American adults, and 61% of Hispanic adults have access to home broadband service.
- As of Q2 2019, the top cable internet providers based on the highest number of subscribers are Comcast, Charter, Altice, Cox, Mediacom, WOW (WideOpenWest), Cable One, and Atlantic Broadband.
- American internet users are paying the same amount for different speeds. For $70 a month, residents of Tuscon, Arizona get 30 Mbps from Cox Communications Inc. while the residents of Spring Hill, Tennessee get 300 Mbps from AT&T Inc. for the same amount.
- Some of the popular internet providers in the United States, based on a survey of 1591 respondents, include Spectrum Internet (24%), Xfinity (22%), AT&T Internet (17%), Fios (6%), CenturyLink (5%), Cox (5%), Frontier (2%), Mediacom (2%), Windstream (2%), HughesNet (1%), Cable One (1%), and Dish Network (1%).
INTERNET PACKAGE PRICING IN THE US
1. Cable
- Xfinity Internet Blast package provides cable internet service with a download speed of up to 200 Mbps at a cost of $59.99 per month.
- Cox High Speed Internet Preferred
package also provides a cable internet service with a download speed of up to 100 Mbps at a cost of $49.99 per month.
2. DSL
- CenturyLink High-Speed Internet
is a DSL internet package that offers a download speed of up to 20 Mbps at a cost of $45 per month.
- AT&T Internet 50
offers a DSL internet package with a download speed of up to 50 Mbps at a cost of $40 per month.
3. Fiber
- Frontier Simply FiOS 150/150
package provides fiber internet connection at a cost of $40 per month for download speed of up to 150 Mbps.
- AT&T Internet 1000
package offers fiber internet service with a download speed of up to 1000 Mbps at a monthly cost of $80.
4. Satellite
- HughesNet 20 GB
package provides a satellite internet connection at a cost of $59.99 per month for a download speed of up to 25 Mbps.
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