The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the importance of digital resources, but about one in ten Americans say that they often have problems connecting to the internet at home1. This Digital Divide, or lack of access to fixed broadband in some parts of the country, is important to address so that all Americans can access essential digital resources. We recently published a report in collaboration with ACA Connects that evaluates the extent to which geography plays a role in the Digital Divide, and

COVID-19 has increased the importance of digital resources as essential services move online. In the face of this landscape, policymakers are focused on closing the digital divide by ensuring Americans can affordably access reliable internet connections. We recently published a report in collaboration with ACA Connects that evaluates how much it would cost to ensure that all Americans can access reliable fixed broadband.

Before the pandemic, 20% of Americans worked from home. Now, 71% do, and 81% of employed Americans working from home report relying on video conferencing services to continue doing their jobs[i]. Clearly, COVID-19 has greatly increased the importance of video conferencing applications in our lives. The video conferencing market is expected to nearly double in market value from $4.8 billion in 2019 to $9.2 billion by 2026[ii], largely driven by the accelerated adoption of video conferencing that

According to the data published by the FCC in June 2020 – the latest publicly available release – there are 3.8M households in the US (3%) that still do not have access to baseline level broadband of at least 25/3 Mbps, the FCC’s current broadband standard. In addition to the households known to the FCC to be unserved, there’s a known limitation in FCC reporting methodology that results in some households being classified as ‘served’ when they don’t have this baseline service available. Studies suggest this there may be as many as 8.2M of these households, for a total of 12M unserved households across the US (~10%).

COVID-19 has highlighted the impact of America’s Digital Divide: even though 84% of Americans[i] report that the internet has been important during the pandemic for work, education, and basic services like healthcare, many households still don’t have access to a baseline (25/3 Mbps) connection. It is of growing importance to ensure that all Americans can access and afford broadband.

The digital divide is both an availability problem and an adoption problem. Approximately 12M households do not have access to 25/3 Mbps broadband service, and about 30M do not subscribe to such service when it's available.

Based on a recent Cartesian survey, 22% of Americans aged 18-60 admit to using login credentials borrowed, purchased, or stolen from someone outside their household. This behavior is so prevalent on popular streaming platforms that Netflix recently began cracking down on the practice through two-factor authentication. This isn’t just a problem for Netflix: Our survey found that 19% of Americans use shared credentials to access ESPN Plus, 17% to access Hulu, 15% to access CBS All Access, and 15%

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