Majority of U.S. households have highspeed in 2010

Increasing competition among the telcom companies makes the web surfer wanna cher. This is what MediaPost had to report:

In an effort to forestall the proliferation of rival Internet providers, SBC Communications Wednesday said it would cut the rate of its already cut-rate broadband service by 25 percent. As the second-largest U.S. telecommunications company, SBC's decision to provide monthly broadband service for $14.95 - down from $19.95 - will accelerate nationwide high-speed adoption, according to industry observers.
For customers who want faster Internet service, the SBC Yahoo! DSL Pro service is also available for $24.99 per month for 12 months if ordered online.
If the cost of broadband continues to slide, up to 69 million households - 78 percent of U.S. online homes - will have high-speed access by 2010, a recent Jupiter Research reported estimated. The report, "Broadband Forecast, 2005 to 2010," found that 8.2 million new households subscribed to broadband last year, bringing to 31.9 million the total number of U.S. households with broadband - a 35 percent increase from 2003. Joe Laszlo, Jupiter Research analyst and lead author of the report, estimated that while cable companies still hold about 59 percent of the U.S. broadband market--thanks to an early start in launching high-speed Internet services--telecoms like SBC are aggressively closing in.

And, as reported, fiber is also coming to the U.S. households....