Leichtman Research Group recently released a report on broadband home adoption. They found that 81% of US households get a broadband Internet service at home. The last Connect Minnesota survey of Minnesota homes indicated that 70 percent of Minnesota homes had broadband access. That survey is from 2013. (More recent reports have come out based on access to broadband but I don’t know of any based on adoption.)

Here are some of the other facts from the Leichtman report…

Other related findings include:

• 78% with broadband at home also access the Internet on a smartphone — compared to 52% in 2012
• 31% not online at home access the Internet on a smartphone — compared to 12% in 2012
• The mean time spent online at home per day among broadband subscribers is 2.9 hours — up from 2.4 hours per day in 2010
• 13% of households get a broadband Internet service, but do not subscribe to a pay-TV service, while 68% of households get both broadband and pay-TV services
• 32% of households with annual incomes <$30,000 do not use a laptop or desktop computer at home — compared to 4% with incomes >$50,000
• About 3.5% of all households have an iPad or tablet, but do not use a laptop or desktop computer — up from 1% in 2013

I asked what they used as a definition of broadband; here is their response…

Is your (primary) Internet service a high-speed broadband Internet service, or an older type of dial-up Internet service?

We also check results against the type of high-speed Internet service that they say they have (cable, Telco, other), as well as the name of the provider.

Broadband in this case is not based-off of the updated FCC definition, but is closer to the prior one.

BTW, 66% of broadband subscribers don’t know their speed.

It’s interesting that 66 percent do not know their speed. I suspect for them it’s either fast enough to do what they want or not. It is a glimpse at why conversations on numeric definitions of broadband are tough – most of us don’t understand what the numbers are.