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Federal Recovery Act (ARRA) - Preliminary Results of Broadband Survey

This is a table of preliminary results for the Broadband Customer Survey.

Data as of September 2, 2009	Respondents with Broadband	Respondents without Broadband
Number responding	3467	5092
Businesses responding	684	521
Number of employees	125,397	11,750
Too slow	1439	n/a
Too expensive	2109	n/a
Too few choices	2036	n/a
Other problems with current broadband	589	n/a
Not available	n/a	4,515
Do not need	n/a	28
Have access elsewhere	n/a	171
Is too expensive	n/a	889
Dial-up suits my needs	n/a	55
No suitable computer	n/a	47
Other reasons for no broadband	n/a	309