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CenterFuse Broadband Feasibility Report • 69% said the cost of monthly access and of affording a computer or smartphone was too high. 34% listed this as the primary reason for not having broadband. • 44% said it was too difficult to set up a computer and to learn how to use broadband, which 12% gave this as the primary reason. • 42% said they were concerned about privacy and computer viruses, while 21% gave this as the primary reason for not having broadband. • 41% said they had a lack of interest in being online, with 22% giving this as the primary reason for not having broadband. The results of those two surveys are drastically different because the surveys asked different questions. If a survey doesn't provide the option to say that privacy is a reason for not having broadband, then that gets missed. People can only respond to the questions asked in a survey as presented to them. For example, there were 12%of respondents in the second survey above that worried about privacy as their primary reason for not having broadband. There had to be people that felt the same way in the Pew survey, but since that question was never asked, respondents were forced to pick from among the choices they were given. FCC Adoption Rate In the 2020 annual report to Congress the FCC reported on broadband adoption by various speeds by state. Adoption rate is the percentage of households that have purchased broadband that meets or exceeds various speed thresholds. Since the data used in the FCC report comes from the Form 477 data, the percentage that that buying a given speed is likely overexaggerated. That makes for some confusing results, but since the same issues affect every state, the overall rankings of broadband adoption by state are probably reasonable. In the 2020 report to Congress,6 the FCC reported the following broadband adoption rates for Washington (meaning the percentage of customers who are buying the listed speeds at their home): Homes buying at least 10/1 Mbps 76.0% Homes buying at least 25/3 Mbps 71.0% Homes buying at least 50/5 Mbps 68.0% Homes buying at least 100/10 Mbps 35.5% Homes buying at least 250/25 Mbps 2.9% To put the FCC numbers into perspective, the percentage of homes that get at least 10/1 Mbps broadband (76.0%) is higher than the US average of 72.7%, ranking Washington as having the twelfth highest percentage of homes buying broadband in the country. FCC Availability of Broadband 6 The 2020 report narrative is at https://docs.fec.gov/publidattachments/FCC-20-50A 1.pdf The 2020 statistics are at hit ps://does.fcc.Rov/public/attachments/FCC-20-50A2.pdf Page 42