Broadband secrets revealed
Source: BBC
The presentation of the benefits of high-speed internet access have little to do with how people actually use broadband, a report has found.
The technology's often-touted selling points - speed and the capacity to be always on - have little clout with the people that use broadband, the study said.
Instead it found that the main advantage for users is that they do not have to worry about the cost of spending too much time online.
The work is part of a long-term project by the think-tank, the Work Foundation, into how people use technologies such as mobile phones and the internet.
