High-speed Internet adoption slowing in the US

C|Net and InformationWeek report on a study from Parks Associates that shows that high-speed internet adoption in the US is slowing. From C|Net:

Americans’ home adoption of the Internet has stalled, and doesn’t appear likely to increase much in the next few years, according to a new research report issued Thursday.

About 64 percent of Americans had some form of Internet access at home in 2005, said Dallas-based Parks Associates. That’s up from 62 percent in 2004, the research firm reported, while also predicting that Internet adoption will grow only 3 percentage points by 2009.

“I think (adoption) is slowing down,” said John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates. “Part of it is that it’s hard to get cheaper on the dial-up side than where prices are already at.”

Last year, a study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project concluded that Americans’ adoption of broadband was slowing.

The Parks Associates report said that 42 percent of Americans now have some form of broadband access at home, while 22 percent more have dial-up. An additional 13 percent get Internet access only outside of the home—at work or a library, for example—and 23 percent don’t use the Internet at all.