British Net Usage Skyrockets – Rural Americans Don’t.

Britain is glued to one screen or the other. Orange, the Telecom company, released figures that show Britains spending just as much time on the internet, as watching television at home.

While more than six in 10 households claim they could not live without their computer, nearly half now spend more than three hours a day on the internet and a similar period watching television. The study of 2,500 households by telecom giant Orange found that it is now as common to come in from work and log on to a website as it is to flop down in front of the TV.

On the other side of the pond, rural Americans are feeling left out of the broadband world. And since large telecoms aren’t coming into, say, Sullivan, Illinois, the residents have decided to wire-up their town themselves.

More about the British Stats at ContentAgenda.