{"id":649769,"date":"2013-03-28T15:05:26","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blandinonbroadband.org\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:05:26","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:05:26","slug":"surveys-show-wired-service-trumps-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649769","title":{"rendered":"Surveys show wired service trumps wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll preface this post by saying (again) that I think there\u2019s a permanent place in the world for wired and wireless access. The question of preference\u00a0has come up lately as people are required to make choices \u2013 generally based on finances. Remote communities choose wireless options because it\u2019s so much cheaper than fiber. Residents choose wireless often because a wireless-friendly\u00a0device (tablet, smartphone) is so much cheaper than a laptop. The National Broadband Plan and federal funding leans toward wireless with the Mobility Fund.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telecompetitor.com\/is-fixed-broadband-access-more-important-than-mobility-2\/\">Telecompetitor<\/a> is reporting that when asked, UK residents would choose wired over video and mobile services\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If they had to give up one service (video entertainment, mobile, broadband), U.K. consumers would ditch video (49 percent) or mobile (30 percent) before their fixed network broadband connection (two percent), a survey of\u00a0 more than 10,000 U.K. consumers has found.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The article goes on to describe the survey takers\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Nor is it clear whether the <a title=\"thinkbroadband findings\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkbroadband.com\/broadband-survey.html\" >thinkbroadband findings<\/a> are in some way atypical of \u201cmost\u201d consumers. The survey is skewed towards early adopters and information technology-literate users.<\/p>\n<p>About\u00a0 41 percent of respondents described themselves as \u201cconfident\u201d with IT and 49 percent said they considered themselves \u201cpower users.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, 51 percent of respondents say they use broadband \u201cfor personal use only.\u201d Some 46 percent of respondents use their broadband for work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8426\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blandinonbroadband.wordpress.com\/8426\/\" \/><\/a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blandinonbroadband.org&#038;blog=785113&#038;%23038;post=8426&#038;%23038;subd=blandinonbroadband&#038;%23038;ref=&#038;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll preface this post by saying (again) that I think there\u2019s a permanent place in the world for wired and wireless access. The question of preference\u00a0has come up lately as people are required to make choices \u2013 generally based on finances. Remote communities choose wireless options because it\u2019s so much cheaper than fiber. Residents choose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}