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What is Broadband Digital Divide

Chapter 46
Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission
The gap between those with effective access to broadband services and those without. The term refers not only to the unavailability of physical access to broadband networks, but also to the difficulties in using these technologies because of lack of skills and literacy. Given that broadband is seen as the key driver for future social and economic development, the digital divide widens the gap in economic divisions around the world.
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Explaining Patterns of Broadband Development in OECD Countries
Inmaculada Cava Ferreruela (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-851-2.ch046
Abstract
The aim of this chapter is to provide some insights about the explaining patterns of broadband deployment and adoption. This problem is addressed by examining them in the light of the results of an exhaustive cross-national empirical analysis that uses a comprehensive panel data set from the 30 OECD countries with more than 40 features. The results suggest that technological competition and the low cost of deploying infrastructures on one side, and the predisposition to use new technologies as well as some social indicators on the other, appear to be the key drivers for broadband deployment and adoption, respectively.
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