Technology: More Facts

• 62% of employed Americans go online from their jobs and 75% of students go online from their schools <http://www.people-press.org/tech98sum.htm>

• six million out of nearly 103 million U.S. households don't even have basic telephone service (e.g., Indian reservations)

• In the early '90s when Bell companies planned to offer video dialtone in various markets across the country, Mark Cooper, Consumer Federation of America, found there was "a clear and systematic pattern of not serving some lower-income areas, which turn out to be much more heavily minority areas."

<http://www.techweb.com/se/directlink.cgi?TLC19980801S0035>

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