Large parts of America don't have *high-speed* internet, because it's not covered by the same laws that subsidize rural telephone service for all via taxes. It's more unusual not to have Internet at all. If you look at a map, you see enormous areas that don't have internet, but those are very thinly inhabited.
84% of all Americans and 78% of rural Americans use the internet. (Some, obviously, have chosen not to rather than are unable to.) http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/americans-internet-access-2000-2015/ We've got a ways to go; there are tax subsidies and government programs to encourage universal access to broadband, but it's not even close to there yet.
Sign of my age: I just had to go back and edit "Internet" to lowercase throughout. I also have to remind myself not to capitalize or hyphenate email.
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Date: 2016-11-06 09:34 pm (UTC)84% of all Americans and 78% of rural Americans use the internet. (Some, obviously, have chosen not to rather than are unable to.)
http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/06/26/americans-internet-access-2000-2015/ We've got a ways to go; there are tax subsidies and government programs to encourage universal access to broadband, but it's not even close to there yet.
Sign of my age: I just had to go back and edit "Internet" to lowercase throughout. I also have to remind myself not to capitalize or hyphenate email.