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Home Internet Connections by Technology, 2001 and 2003

(millions of households)

	2001	2003	Percent change
Dial-up	44.2	38.6	–12.7%
DSL	3.3	9.3	181.8%
Cable	6.6	12.6	90.9%
Other*	0.5	0.9	80.0%
Number of households with Internet	54.6	61.5	12.6%
Total number of households	108.6	112.6	3.7%

*“Other” includes 0.4 million households with satellite and MMDS broadband in 2003. The 2003 individual home connection numbers do not add up to the category total due to rounding.

Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, Falling Through the Net: Defining the Digital Divide, July 1999, and A Nation Online, 2004.

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