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CenterFuse Broadband Feasibility Report resident of the city. However, like in all cities, they found out that low-income homes couldn't afford the broadband, didn't have computers, and didn't have the digital skills needed to use a computer. The Enterprise Center began offering basic computer training a year ago and was overwhelmed by the huge number of people who wanted basic training. The Enterprise Center is now looking for ways to greatly expand the training to meet the demand. Of course, not everybody agrees with that conclusion and there are a lot of people working on digital inclusion who say that the issue is a lot simpler—policymakers don't understand the struggle low- income homes have deciding between broadband bills and food bills. A Pew Research Center survey in 2016 showed that 60% of adults were interested in learning how to use online resources to find trustworthy information; 54% of adults were interesting in training to make them more confident in using computers and the Internet. This is the hardest gap of all to identify because many adults don't want to admit that they don't know how to use a computer. Every community we know that offers basic digital literacy training says they are always surprised at the number of residents who ask for training. Future Broadband Gaps This gap analysis so far has discussed existing broadband gaps. It's important to realize that there will be new broadband gaps coming in the future that we can already predict. One of the issues to consider when looking forward is that broadband speeds are a moving target—that is,the demand for residential and business bandwidth grows every year. This is not a new phenomenon and the need for bandwidth has been growing at nearly the same rate since the early 1980s. Home and business need for bandwidth has been doubling every three to four years since then. As an example, 1 Mbps DSL felt really fast in the late 1990s when it was introduced as an upgrade from dial-up Internet. The first 1 Mbps DSL connection was nearly twenty times faster than dial-up, and many people thought that speed would be adequate for many years. However, over time, households needed more speed and the 1 Mbps connections started to feel too slow and ISPs introduced faster generations of DSL and cable modems that delivered speeds like 6 Mbps, 10 Mbps, and 15 Mbps. Cable modem speeds continued to grow in capacity and eventually surpassed DSL, and in most cities the cable companies have captured the lion's share of the market by offering internet speeds starting between 100 Mbps and 200 Mbps. Bandwidth requirements are continuing to grow. Firms like Cisco and Opensignal track speeds achieved by large numbers of households by examining Internet traffic that passes through the major Internet POPs. Both companies estimate that home internet need for bandwidth downloading as well as the need for broadband speeds are growing currently at about 21% annually. Business use of bandwidth is currently growing at 23% annually. This report earlier discussed how the FCC set the definition of bandwidth in 2015 at 25/3 Mbps. If you accept that speed as an adequate definition of bandwidth in 2015, then growing the requirements for speed every year by 21%would result in the following speed requirements by year. Download Speeds in Megabits/ Second Page 50