RtBrick Study Finds 70% of U.S. Consumers Face Home Internet Buffering and Dropouts
Updated
Updated · GlobeNewswire · May 26
RtBrick Study Finds 70% of U.S. Consumers Face Home Internet Buffering and Dropouts
1 articles · Updated · GlobeNewswire · May 26
5,040 U.S. consumers surveyed by RtBrick showed about 70% experience home internet buffering or dropouts, with 8% saying disruptions hit multiple times a day.
32% reported buffering at least weekly and 15% daily, with problems clustering in multi-person households, fast-growing suburbs, and homes running several latency-sensitive applications at once.
37% said they completely trust their broadband provider to deliver a reliable connection, while 38% said they would pay extra for faster or more dependable service.
27% of fiber users reported weekly buffering problems versus 47% of satellite users, underscoring differences in reliability across broadband technologies.
27% expect household internet use to rise over the next two years, and RtBrick said legacy network infrastructure will struggle further unless operators modernize.
As household budgets tighten, can providers deliver the reliability Americans demand without the price hikes they cannot afford?
Is America's internet crisis a failure of old technology or a failure of the modern policies meant to replace it?