From Yahoo! News - What, You Don't Have Broadband Yet? "I've got a buddy who's equally into high-tech gadgets, and he's crawling around the Web with a pokey dial-up modem. The funny thing is, he doesn't seem to mind--except on days when I send him hefty Adobe Acrobat files. You know why? Because he watches video on his TV and listens to music on his stereo--not on his PC, as broadband providers might wish."

A recent study by Strategy Analytics surveying 525 broadband households who upgraded to broadband found out that people upgrade for pragmatic rather than gee-whiz reasons, including:

Freeing up a phone line
A constant connection
You can share it (via a network)
Helps with dealing with Spam
Faster downloads of files (PPT, etc.)
Keeps your PC up-to-date (downloading software updates)

interesting study, interesting story....