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A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access .
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A little under one-third of U.S. households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most of theholdoutsseeing little use for it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday.
Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said 29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internet access and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next 12 months.
The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found the main reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internet is because of the low value to their daily lives they perceive rather than concerns over cost.
Forty-four percent of these households say they are not interested in anything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannot afford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed.
The answer "I'm not sure how to use the Internet" came from 17 percent of participants who do not subscribe. The response "I do all my e-commerce shopping and YouTube-watching at work" was cited by 14 percent of Internet-access refuseniks. Three percent said the Internet doesn't reach their homes.
The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent over 2006, up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted from slower-speed,dial-up Internet accesswhile the other half of households had no prior access.
"The industry continues to chip away at the core of nonsubscribers, but has a ways to go," said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates.
"Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull in the holdouts, it's going to be applications that make the Internet more akin topay TV," he predicted.
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(AFP)
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據(jù)上周五公布的一項(xiàng)調(diào)查顯示，近三分之一的美國(guó)家庭沒(méi)有上網(wǎng)服務(wù)，而且也不打算訂制，其中大多數(shù)家庭認(rèn)為上網(wǎng)對(duì)他們的生活沒(méi)什么意義。
據(jù)達(dá)拉斯Park Associates技術(shù)市場(chǎng)調(diào)查公司介紹，29%的美國(guó)家庭（3100萬(wàn)個(gè)家庭）未訂制上網(wǎng)服務(wù)，而且在未來(lái)的一年內(nèi)也沒(méi)有這個(gè)打算。
這項(xiàng)由Park Associates公司開(kāi)展的第二次年度全國(guó)科技調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，這些潛在用戶不申請(qǐng)網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)的主要原因是他們認(rèn)為網(wǎng)絡(luò)在日常生活中沒(méi)有什么用途，而不是費(fèi)用的問(wèn)題。
調(diào)查顯示，這些家庭中的45%稱，他們對(duì)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上的東西不感興趣；而只有22%稱他們買(mǎi)不起電腦或承擔(dān)不起上網(wǎng)費(fèi)用。
17%的家庭說(shuō)他們“不知道如何上網(wǎng)”；14%的家庭的回答則是“在上班時(shí)間網(wǎng)上購(gòu)物或觀看YouTube上的視頻”；3%的家庭稱網(wǎng)絡(luò)還沒(méi)通到家里。
調(diào)查發(fā)現(xiàn)，美國(guó)的寬帶使用率從2005年的42%上升到了2006年的52%。近一半的新用戶此前使用的是網(wǎng)速較慢的撥號(hào)上網(wǎng)服務(wù)，另一半用戶之前沒(méi)有訂制網(wǎng)絡(luò)服務(wù)。
Parks Associates公司的調(diào)查部經(jīng)理約翰·巴里特說(shuō)：“目前互聯(lián)網(wǎng)業(yè)在繼續(xù)努力，試圖改變這些非網(wǎng)絡(luò)用戶的想法，但仍然需要一個(gè)過(guò)程?！?/font>
據(jù)約翰預(yù)測(cè)，“娛樂(lè)應(yīng)用將是解決這一問(wèn)題的關(guān)鍵。只有讓互聯(lián)網(wǎng)的作用更接近付費(fèi)電視，才能贏得這些用戶?！?br/>
（ 英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯）
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