A study on the deployment of high-speed broadband networks in NUTS3 regions within the framework of digital agenda for Europe

Feijóo, Claudio; Ramos, Sergio; Armuña, Cristina; Arenal, Alberto; Gómez-Barroso, José-Luis

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2017.11.001

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“…Todo ello, a su vez, se ve beneficiado por las facilidades que proporcionan el acceso generalizado a internet a través de los teléfonos inteligentes, tabletas y otros dispositivos (Van Deursen & Van Dijk, 2013). De hecho, los estudios realizados hasta el momento afirman que la población a título individual tiende a utilizar internet y las TIC de forma recreativa (Zillien & Hargittai, 2009;Pearce & Rice, 2013;Van Deursen & Van Dijk, 2013;Feijóo, Ramos, Armuña, Arenal & Gómez-Barroso, 2018), por encima de su uso para realizar servicios administrativos, técnicos y comerciales (Amichai-Hamburger & Ben-Artzi, 2003;Kalmus, Realo & Siibak, 2011). Lo cual indica la presencia de potenciales desigualdades digitales entre individuos, siendo aquellas personas con mayor nivel de estudios o que han socializado en edades tempranas con las TIC, quienes disfrutan con mayor facilidad de los beneficios que implica la búsqueda de información sobre temas de salud, comercio electrónico o la interacción digital con la administración pública (De Marco, 2017).…”

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Comportamiento espacial del uso de las TIC en los hogares e individuos. Un análisis regional europeo

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Relaño

Lucendo-Monedero

2020

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Estudios recientes muestran la existencia de desigualdades espaciales en la dotación y uso de infraestructuras TIC de los hogares e individuos entre el norte, sur y este de Europa. Los estudios previos se han realizado a escala país o para ámbitos rurales-urbanos, sin analizar la existencia de patrones de distribución espacial. El objetivo es identificar patrones espaciales de uso de las TIC en hogares e individuos a nivel regional en Europa. La investigación se realiza con dos variables complejas: “Disponibilidad de acceso a internet y uso diario de comercio, banca y administración electrónica” o uso transaccional; y, “Uso de redes sociales por banda ancha” o uso relacional. Con 233 NUT 2 se analiza la: a) distribución y dispersión estadística del grado de variabilidad del uso de TIC; y, 2) autocorrelación espacial con SIG para identificar patrones espaciales mediante el cálculo de los índices globales de I de Moran y Getis-Ord, Anselin local de Moran y Getis-Ord Gi*. Se obtiene como resultado que el uso relacional presenta valores similares entre las regiones europeas, mostrando una distribución territorial uniforme, donde la componente espacial no es un factor de igual magnitud que para la variable transaccional que dibuja un definido patrón espacial con gradiente noroeste-sureste.

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Comportamiento espacial del uso de las TIC en los hogares e individuos. Un análisis regional europeo

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2020

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“…Achieving both aims, incentivizing investments while enabling competitive markets, is a challenging task. This is especially true for nonurban regions, where investment costs per household rise—in many instances, above the level at which more than one infrastructure is economically viable (Feijóo et al, 2018). In such regions, natural monopoly characteristics are exhibited by such broadband networks.…”

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“…The main causes are differences in population density and different drop segment lengths. Our investment cost per household estimation is based on the cost modeling obtained by Jay et al (2012) and a cost modeling survey by Feijóo et al (2018). In our model, we apply the cost per households estimates shown in Figure 1 ranked by clusters, each of which represents 5% of all households.…”

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“…The value of F c in year T reflects the circumstance that other competing infrastructures (cable, mobile, and other FTTC or FTTH networks) are likely to account for substantial market share. These are likely to be found in urban and suburban areas, while rural areas throughout Europe have little or no HFC coverage and it will most likely be too costly for more than one FTTP network to become established (Feijóo et al, 2018). Thus, we assume the maximum take-up to be limited to 55% in urban cluster 1 (with the highest population density) and 80% for rural cluster 20 (lowest population density).…”

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“… 12. Although costs vary for other countries, the general theme of varying costs among differently densely populated regions applies to each country (see Feijóo et al, 2018). …”

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A study on the deployment of high-speed broadband networks in NUTS3 regions within the framework of digital agenda for Europe

Cited by 29 publications

References 18 publications

Comportamiento espacial del uso de las TIC en los hogares e individuos. Un análisis regional europeo

Comportamiento espacial del uso de las TIC en los hogares e individuos. Un análisis regional europeo

Towards a vertically separated broadband infrastructure: The potential role of voluntary separation

Integration of Remote and Social Sensing Data Reveals Uneven Quality of Broadband Connectivity Across World Cities

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