Even though broadband high speed Internet service has been always attractive choice to Internet users, its deployment has not been very successful. Until very recently most broadband access providers offer a single quality level and price. We propose a definition of Quality of Service (QoS) in a broadband network, present a measurement of the proposed QoS, and discuss its implementability. Furt...

The Australian government has recognised the importance of broadband for their social and economic development. This paper provides an in-depth analysis of the impact of policy issues on broadband Internet access in Australia. This research has clearly indicated that the state of broadband Internet access is closely related to the Government’s policy and regulatory framework. The Government bas...

The states care about broadband. California and Kentucky regulators have developed creative legal theories to extend their jurisdiction to regulate broadband services. The Colorado, Washington, and Michigan legislatures, among others, created incentive programs to promote broadband investment within their states. And municipalities themselves are getting into the business of providing broadband...

A new digital divide is emerging both within and between nations that is due to inequalities in broadband Internet access. Most previous research has focused on the broadband divide in developed countries and the role of several factors in bridging this divide, including competition specifically to provide broadband service. There seems to be very little research, however, that provides compreh...

A new digital divide is emerging both within and between nations that is due to inequalities in broadband Internet access. We show using data from the OECD and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) that this new digital divide is a global problem that can be observed in both developed and developing countries. To bridge the global broadband divide, organizations and individuals must c...

Christoph Lattemann, Sören Kupke, Anna-Maria Schneider, Stefan Stieglitz Chair for Corporate Governance and E-Commerce University of Potsdam, 14482 Potsdam Phone: 0049 (0) 331/977 38 39 Fax: 0049 (0) 331 977 33 75 eMail: lattema|kupke|annschne|[email protected] Abstract Broadband access plays a major role for the economic growth, and for the social, and cultural development of urban areas...

Broadband infrastructure is a key component of the knowledge economy. Employing a secondary data set, this study examines adoption factors of fixed broadband among OECD countries. The result of the regression analysis suggests platform competition, income, and education positively influence fixed broadband diffusion. Light form of Local Loop Unbundling (LLU) was positively associated with high ...

Even as geographic disparities in high speed Internet access narrow, an urban–rural broadband gap persists, pointing to the importance of individual differences in motivations to adopt broadband as the key to closing the gap. Diffusion of innovation is reconceptualized through contemporary perspectives of the digital divide and social cognitive theory and tested on a survey sample drawn from fo...

A viral broadband network is a community based wireless mesh, which grows organically and utilizes the aggregate resources of the users in order to provide broadband Internet access. Effectively, the users themselves are turned into service providers, leveraging the network access of the subset of the user population. We present the case for viral broadband in the socioeconomic context of broad...