Art Silber Quotes

The migration to broadband is happening more slowly for dial-up users in 2005 than 2002. With fewer new internet users coming online these days, the stock of potential broadband subscribers is not being replenished.

Details of how to get a subscription drug benefit available to senior citizens was recently put online but only 27% of over-65`s have net access, meaning people were lacking information about a key benefit,

The fact that you had this U.S. domestic crisis and people turning to international news sources is interesting.

People do benefit from information they get online, whether it`s health care or information on government services or just social connections from e-mail. We`ve found that broadband connections tend to magnify those impacts.

The low-hanging fruit of early adopters is gone, ... And the remaining dial-up population seems unenthused in terms of the Internet, so mathematically, that makes for a smaller fruitful pool for providers to select from.

It can give a movement like this legs that it wouldn`t have had 10 years ago, ... Today, protest is decentralized. You don`t have to get 100,000 people marching on Washington. But you can get 10,000 people in 10 different cities rather quickly.

The issue is that the remaining pool of dial-up users today is a different demographic category. A couple years back, you had people making the bit-per-buck calculation ... (which) prompted them to switch. The existing pool of dial-up users is not accessing as many bits.

They`re not as ardently engaged as users a couple of years back. They`re satisfied with rudimentary applications on the Internet. They like e-mail. They will check the news. They`re satisfied with the basics.

All factors associated with tepid internet use.

When you focus on the behavioral aspects of Internet users on dial-up, they`re not doing as much as Internet users who have adopted.