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调查：三成美国家庭对上网没兴趣 Many Americans see little point to Web? [ 2007-03-28 08:43 ] A little under one-third of U.S.households have no Internet access and do not plan to get it, with most ofthe holdouts seeing little usefor it in their lives, according to a survey released on Friday. Park Associates, a Dallas-based technology market research firm, said29 percent of U.S. households, or 31 million homes, do not have Internetaccess and do not intend to subscribe to an Internet service over the next12 months.The second annual National Technology Scan conducted by Park found themain reason potential customers say they do not subscribe to the Internetis because of the low value to their daily lives they perceive rather thanconcerns over cost.Forty-four percent of these households say they are not interested inanything on the Internet, versus just 22 percent who say they cannotafford a computer or the cost of Internet service, the survey showed.The answer "I'm not sure how to use the Internet" came from 17 percentof participants who do not subscribe. The response "I do all my e-commerceshopping and YouTube-watching at work" was cited by 14 percent ofInternet-access refuseniks. Three percent said the Internet doesn't reachtheir homes.The study found U.S. broadband adoption grew to 52 percent over 2006,up from 42 percent in 2005. Roughly half of new subscribers converted fromslower-speed, dial-up Internetaccess while the other half of households had no prioraccess."The industry continues to chip away at the core of nonsubscribers, buthas a ways to go," said John Barrett, director of research at ParksAssociates."Entertainment applications will be the key. If anything will pull inthe holdouts, it's going to be applications that make the Internet moreakin to pay TV ," hepredicted.双语资讯 | 
