One out of four signing up for broadband Internet access admit they did it to get Internet porn, according to a survey from British Internet and telephone company Homecall.
Homecall said in the survey published December 8 that getting to the porn faster was the second biggest reason they went broadband, while downloading music was the top reason.
The company polled five thousand people face to face in Manchester, London, Glasgow, Cardiff and Birmingham earlier in December and found a third of those went broadband—which gives you ten times faster Internet access than traditional dialup—to download music, with 23 percent going for adult entertainment and services, 12 percent for music videos, 9 percent for online radio, 8 percent for movie trailers, and 5 percent to share information with family and friends.
“Broadband in the home has really taken off,” an unidentified Homecall spokesperson told the British press. “We have been able to keep in touch with family and friends via email on dial-up, but having high speed internet access in the privacy of our own home allows us to use the service for entertainment as well.”
Last summer, Homecall kicked off aggressive expansion to the home market by launching broadband aimed directly at undercutting competitors, including broadband access packages tied to customers' actual defined online needs including how often they actually went online and for how long, the actual speed they felt they required, and how much they preferred to pay.
