Income is another factor, according to experts. As earnings rise, the cyber gap narrows. Not willing to wait Time, some argue, works against increases in income quickly closing the cyber gap. The problem is people with resources maintain a technological advantage and even greater access because of what they are able to spend on computer classes and equipment upgrades. That is widening the gap.
Money equals access, compounding the problem.
And one-third of poor minorities do not have telephones. One out of every seven African-Americans doesn't have a home phone. People in some rural and urban areas lack access because the infrastructure never existed or has not been updated. Some communities will need to be completely rewired. If they had computers, they wouldn't be able to use them.