Roughly speaking: it's the old, the poor, the uneducated, and the rural.
That's not terribly surprising.
That's not terribly surprising.
I do want to see this studies raw questions/ data gathering.
However, there's rural and there's rural. Some people live places where the cable company would have to run miles of copper just to service a single house. If you're living so far out and also poor, you probably can't afford to tether to your cell phone either.
Their internet availability is satellite. They have phone lines, but are too far out for DSL. Some have cable, so they can get like 3mb for $80/mo or something. I can get edge service on my cell sometimes, but it's basically unusable.
You're probably thinking more of the exurbs. Houses with like 1-5 acres of land off of a county highway or something.
No, I'm thinking of North Dakota. We seem to have really good internet in a lot of places. The rural electric cooperatives have made real efforts at laying fiber.
Almost all of the stats in the study reflect the composition of the 65+ US population.