Half of US Broadband Homes Use Mobile Data as Primary Road to Internet, Says Parks

The 71 percent of U.S. broadband households with Wi-Fi or Apple AirPort access own an average 30 percent more computing devices than non-Wi-Fi households, Parks Associates reported Tuesday. Wi-Fi is “by far” the most common road to internet access in broadband households, but half use 3G/4G mobile data as a primary source of broadband, Parks said. More than half of U.S. broadband households with speeds under 1 Gbps would upgrade to gigabit-speed services if they were offered, said the industry research firm. Seven percent of those households have only one device connected via Ethernet, it said. Wi-Fi households own an average 5.7 computing devices and 8.1 connectable CE devices, said the researcher.