Household Broadband Penetration up More Than Threefold Over Past Decade, LRG Says

Eighty-one percent of U.S. households get broadband service, up from 26 percent a decade ago, Leichtman Research Group said in a news release Thursday. LRG said broadband accounts for 97 percent of home Internet service, compared with 91 percent in 2010 and 40 percent in 2005. Overall, 84 percent of U.S. households get home Internet service, and 69 percent of adults go online via a smartphone, it said. Sixty-eight percent of U.S. households get both broadband and pay-TV service, while 13 percent of households get broadband but don't subscribe to TV, LRG said. The data came from a phone survey of 1,223 U.S. households in October, it said.