John Horrigan Quotes (21 Quotes)

This is still technology that does require a certain capacity to self-troubleshoot, ... The switching cost could just be the technical aspect of doing the setup, and often you have to switch your e-mail address. These are people who are older, less educated and less adept to go through the process.

Existing broadband users were the early adopters who used to pay for the dial-up wait and they got impatient with it, which is why they switched over to broadband, ... We see a slowing down in broadband growth partly because most of the low-hanging fruit of early adopters have been harvested by broadband providers.

All factors associated with tepid internet use.

Having the Internet at your fingertips helps you cultivate and maintain social relationships. It becomes very important for maintaining ties and it does open up doors to getting advice when you need it.

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.

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,

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.

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.

Thirty-four percent of people said the Internet played a crucial role, they got advice and support from other people. Thirty percent said they got information online to compare options.

Internet use provides online Americans a path to resources, such as access to people who may have the right information to help deal with family health crises or find a new job. When you need help these days, you don't need a bugle to call the cavalry, you need a big buddy list.

Local TV, in particular, takes a hit when people start spending more time with online news.

The Internet does help spur traditional means of staying in touch.

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.

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.

If my mother can set up her own broadband connection and she did then it has become a technology that is reasonably user-friendly to everybody. As more and more people go to the Internet just to pass the time, just for fun, it becomes a destination, just like turning on the TV traditionally has been.

The broadband difference is now permeating the news environment. High-powered Internet users are heavily into other media sources as well, but the pre-eminent place of online news suggests that it shapes their off-line information choices in an important way.

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

In this case, all six of them came forward. There was no investigation. They are all good kids who have represented us well. They made a mistake and they came forward and accepted the penalty.

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.

For many of these young broadband users, the Internet is their main course for news, and they don't always eat their vegetables or order dessert in the form of using other media.

That wasn't the case even four or five years ago. It's a wake-up call to traditional media sources to keep working at integrating online news into how they provide news generally.