More and more households are getting online solely through mobile devices

When we write about cord-cutting, it’s almost always under the guise of users who are dropping traditional cable service for subscription video on-demand (SVOD) content. But a new report from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), shows that increasingly, more and more Americans are not just dropping cable television, but cable broadband.

The report, which we spotted via Quartz, is interesting because it shows that between 2013 and 2015, “the proportion of online households that relied exclusively on mobile service at home doubled.”

In other words, more and more people now rely solely on mobile Internet for their connectivity needs. Read more...