FEWER PEOPLE USING HOME BROADBAND

More Americans are shunning costly home broadband and using their cellphones to get online, a new survey by the Pew Research Center shows.

Eighty percent of U.S. adults had Internet access this year, whether through a smartphone or a home Internet connection, up from 78 percent two years ago. But after years of home broadband growth, slightly fewer adults in 2015 got Internet from providers like a phone or cable company, mostly because it's too expensive for them.

Meanwhile, the number of people relying on cellphones alone for Internet rose to 13 percent this year from 8 percent in 2013.

That plateau in home broadband use comes as the Obama administration has pushed for greater broadband access and criticized the lack of competition among home Internet providers.