About 37 percent of U.S. adults say they mostly use a smartphone when accessing the internet. More significantly, perhaps. A majority of adults say they subscribe to home broadband, but about one-in-four (27 percent) do not,” say researchers at Pew Research Center. “And growing shares of these non-adopters cite their mobile phone as a reason for not subscribing to these services.”
Even in advance of 5G, which will in many cases become a full substitute for fixed network internet access, 17 percent of survey respondents say they already are “mobile only” for internet access.
As has been true in the past, income and education play key roles in propensity to purchase fixed network internet access. Some 92 percent of adults from households earning $75,000 or more a year say they have broadband internet at home, but that share falls to 56 percent among those whose annual household income falls below $30,000, according to the Pew Research Center.
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