FCC survey: High internet charges preventing broadband growth

WashingtonPost:

The findings were part of a survey to be released by the Federal Communications Commission Tuesday. The agency will use the survey data to help figure out how to connect all Americans to affordable broadband services. The project, ordered by Congress, has been delayed by one month and is expected to set policy goals such as reforming a phone subsidy program for broadband and bringing more spectrum to mobile broadband providers.

In its survey of 5,000 adults, the FCC found that 36 percent of people who don’t get broadband service consider computers, installation charges and monthly access fees to be too costly. Half of those people, however, that they would be willing to get service if it were about $25 a month. Nearly all said they would sign up for broadband service it were about $10 a month. The average broadband cost was about $41 a month, according to respondents.