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Smart Home Products Moving To 50% Of Households By 2020

Some homes will be getting smart and others won’t.

The latest forecast of North American broadband households shows that half of them will be smart homes within four years.

Of course, this means that the other half will remain not so smart.

Most (84%) of U.S. households will have broadband this year, so this pretty well translates to most homes, according to the new data from Parks Associates.

From the article "Smart Home Products Moving To 50% Of Households By 2020" by Chuck Martin.

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