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61% of Americans search for health information online
Today, there is significant resistance to cap- or price-based solutions to congestion management.
According to Technorati, a firm that tracks blog activities, over 175,000 new weblogs are created daily, and more than two blogs are created each second of the day.
As the Pew Internet and American Life Project recently found, “some 74% of internet users – representing 55% of the adult population – went online in 2008 to get involved in the political process or to get news and information about the election.
Investments in America’s digital infrastructure are likely to create or retain 1 million to 2.5 million jobs in the near term.
Widespread consumer use of broadband video seems to be contingent on Internet platform video content becoming more easily accessible via home television sets.
Across the country consumers report that the average monthly price paid for broadband by US households is $40 a month.
As consumer broadband use continues to grow, the ability to save paper would provide considerable benefits to the environment.
For example, if a household could save just one page of paper per day, that would spare 5 million trees per year, 4 million less gallons of water would be polluted, conserve 8.4 million BTUs of energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 700,000 tons. (p. 35)
According to one study by Crandall and Jackson, the ubiquitous deployment of broadband services would create $500 billion of consumer benefits. (p. 45)
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