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Universal access and local internet markets in the US
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In this paper, the geographic spread of commercial Internet service providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of Internet access in the US, is analyzed and the location of 40,000 access points, local phone numbers offered by commercial ISPs, in the Fall of 1997.About:
This article is published in Research Policy.The article was published on 2002-09-01. It has received 64 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Internet transit & Internet access.read more
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Rural internet connectivity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated Internet connectivity in rural regions, looking specifically at four states in the US and found that remote and sparsely populated areas typically lack the telecommunications infrastructure for reliable and fast Internet connections.
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Valuing Consumer Products by the Time Spent Using Them: An Application to the Internet
TL;DR: In this article, a simple model in which both expenditure and time contribute to consumption can be used to estimate the consumer gains from a good using just the data on time use and the opportunity cost of people's time (i.e., the wage).
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The use of ICT in rural firms: A policy-orientated literature review
Laura Galloway,Robbie Mochrie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw together the highly eclectic literature on the use of ICTs in rural small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in order to provide an overview of generic issues relevant to policy.
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Infrastructure and the Rural—urban Divide in High-speed Residential Internet Access:
TL;DR: In this article, current population survey data from 2000, 2001, and 2003 are combined with novel infrastructure data to determine the relative roles of these factors in the rural-urban divide.
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A spatial taxonomy of broadband regions in the United States
TL;DR: This paper explores the dynamic and diverse spatial landscape of broadband availability in the United States at the zip code level, for 2004 and provides a multivariate, spatial taxonomy of broadband regions, highlighting their socioeconomic and demographic differences.
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Innovation policy and the economy
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Internet economics
Lee W. McKnight,Joseph P. Bailey +1 more
TL;DR: Bar et al. as mentioned in this paper present a collection of seminal contributions to a new economic sub-field by the scholars who were among the first to notice and investigate new questions about the economics of networks and forces us to re-examine old questions in a new light.
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The Organizational Ecology of a Technological System.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated organizational mortality in the early American telephone industry, in which thousands of companies proliferated and failed under conditions of technological change, and they predicted that when technologies are systemic, technological change does not necessarily favor advanced organizations.
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Public Access to the Internet
Brian Kahin,James H. Keller +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present material that network managers, politicians, and other professionals need to know in order to ask the right questions and properly analyze the various proposals that are being considered for the future of the National Information Infrastructure (NII).
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