By Rachel Cericola, Jan 25, 2005

According to Parks Associates, the number of households using Wi-Fi wireless technology has surpassed Ethernet. Sound unbelievable? Well, they did a whole survey on it, and it looked pretty big and used a lot of big words.

No seriously: The survey found that 52% of U.S. households have adopted Wi-Fi use, just edging out the 50% that use Ethernet.

John Barrett, director of research at Parks Associates, credits the whole thing to the cable TV and telephone companies that offer broadband Internet service. "Service providers have been aggressive in bundling wireless home networks with broadband service over the last year;" he says "It's a smart move that will ultimately pay off for them because they will be best positioned to offer next-generation services to the consumer."

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