Broadband Penetration
Emma Nash writes in itWeek that previously people said that having only 39% of the country having broadband was indicating a digital divide between the rich and poor has been proved false by the eAdmissions national project being so readily taken up.
Now skipping the staggering jump of logic (Yes, because people used an online system to choose their secondary school in places like Hertfordshire and Hackney, we can see that poorer people have and want broadband!) It’s a reminder that today 39% of people have broadband.
For us indie developer, it means that you can count on at least 2 in 5 visitors to your site will be on broadband speeds (more if you target the 4 countries with better takeup, Holland, Sweden, Japan and Spain). So take your pick when it comes to making your games distributable, small files for non-broadband users, or big content fillled files for the wealthy broadband elite?