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The NYTimes has an interesting item entitled, In a Fast-Moving Web World, Some Prefer the Dial-Up Lane. It looks at the much-analyzed market move to hi-speed Internet from a different perspective: that of people who could be don't/won't switch from dial-up.
The issue here is that there very well may be a large part of the market that is not price or speed-driven. They are satisfied with "good enough." The impact to those of us planning penetration of bandwidth-hog services beyond that of the SAM for broadband may be modestly overestimating our market size. Bear in mind, of course, that this is just the NYTimes's way of providing interesting reading for its customers: could be that Ms Jenkins et al featured in the article are part of very small company. Don't know for sure. But, here's a snip
. . . she is part of another big group, the tens of millions of Americans seemingly immune to the lure of more speed and satisfied with dial-up services. A majority of Americans who surf the Internet still do so by dialing in on regular telephone lines, despite the rapidly narrowing price gap between high-speed and dial-up connections.Posted by Grayson at April 19, 2004 08:06 AM