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Trend Away from Home Broadband

Millennials are today’s trendsetters, and they seem to be voting for less at-home internet and more smartphone usage, at least according to a new Pew Research Center poll.

Young people today are asking themselves why they should pay for broadband services if they are doing most of their browsing with their phones? And the answer is coming back more, that they aren’t.

Compare this preference to the shift from landlines to cellular phones over the past ten years. In 2005 90 percent of US homes were equipped with regular landline phone service. Today that number is only 50 percent, according to Statista which based their survey on data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Pew survey found that the percent of 18-29 year-olds without home internet and only smartphones rose by 7 percent in the past two years.

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