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Residential Broadband Adoption to Increase
Posted on Thursday, February 22, 2007 at 8:48 AM by Jason Barker
CNet reports that, according to Parks Associates, more than 60 million U.S. households - approximately 55 percent - will be have a broadband Internet connection by the end of 2007. This follows a 20 percent growth in 2006, to approximately 50 million U.S. households.
I wrote a couple of months ago about the significance of increased broadband penetration for Orthodox Christian Bible studies:
Statistics such as this have a significant impact on the development of online Orthodox Christian Bible studies. The relatively high penetration of broadband means that it is reasonable to develop multimedia Bible studies, which require a higher bandwidth than simple text-based articles alone. At the same time, a reasonable percentage of users continue to use dialup connections (even though that percentage is continually dropping). I address this issue by offering the majority of the textual content from our Bible studies in two formats: incorporated into the multimedia applications themselves for broadband users, and available separately as HTML documents for dialup users.
At the same time, there are limitations - excluding such previously referenced limitations as our lack of resources to create such materials - on the amount and quality of audio/video material I can incorporate into these studies. As broadband speeds increase, the amount and quality of audio/video materials online can increase.
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