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42 percent of cord-cutters don’t even subscribe to home broadband

December 21, 2015 at 11:13 a.m. EST

Fed up with your cable TV? Tired of paying for an expensive satellite package you barely use? You're not alone: Up to 15 percent of Americans have cut the cord, joining the 9 percent who have never had a cable or satellite TV subscription.

Altogether, that's roughly a quarter of the country that can be called "cord-cutters" or "cord-nevers," according to the Pew Research Center, which published a fresh survey of consumer patterns Monday.