Using Points of Presence to Measure Accessibility to the Commercial Internet

Grubesic, Tony H.; O’Kelly, Morton E.

doi:10.1111/0033-0124.00330

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“…This work finds disparities in access at multiple spatial scales. In general, large urban areas benefit from greater infrastructure availability than do smaller metropolitan areas (Grubesic and O'Kelly ; Moss and Townsend ) and rural areas (Grubesic and Murray ; Strover ). These disparities in access may be explained by differences in the demographic, economic, and educational background of consumers, which impacts the supply of broadband by private, profit‐maximizing companies (Grubesic ; Grubesic and Murray ).…”

Section: Heterogeneities In Broadband Availability and Firm Presencementioning

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Variations in the Broadband‐Business Connection across the Urban Hierarchy

Mack¹

2015

Growth and Change

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This study estimates econometric models to evaluate the linkage between broadband Internet connections and firms in counties across the urban hierarchy within the continental U.S. Industry-related variations in this relationship are also explored using varied definitions of the urban hierarchy. Model results indicate broadband presence in remote areas is not an explanatory factor of establishment presence. Results also suggest the manner in which the urban hierarchy is defined matters. Traditional metropolitan/nonmetropolitan and urban/rural splits of locales are insufficient to capture the geographic and industrial nuances behind this relationship.

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Section: Heterogeneities In Broadband Availability and Firm Presencementioning

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Variations in the Broadband‐Business Connection across the Urban Hierarchy

Mack¹

2015

Growth and Change

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“…Many of the other locations on the list are home to major aggregation points for national backbone providers (network access points [NAP] and metropolitan area ethernets [MAE]). Not surprisingly, this is reflected in the local market, where demand and supply of broadband Internet service are strong (Grubesic and O'Kelly 2002). Figure 2b displays the number of providers for June 2000, where several additional locations begin to display significant levels of broadband competition.…”

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Waiting for Broadband: Local Competition and the Spatial Distribution of Advanced Telecommunication Services in the United States

Grubesic¹,

Murray²

2004

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With the passage of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, Congress directed the Federal Communications Commission and all fifty U.S. states to encourage the deployment of advanced telecommunication capability in a reasonable and timely manner. Today, with the rollout of advanced data services such as digital subscriber lines (xDSL), cable modems, and fixed wireless technologies, broadband has become an important component of telecommunication service and competition. Unfortunately, the deployment of last-mile infrastructure enabling high-speed access has proceeded more slowly than anticipated and competition in many areas is relatively sparse. More importantly, there are significant differences in the availability of broadband services between urban and rural areas. This paper explores aspects of broadband access as a function of market demand and provider competition. Data collected from the Federal Communications Commission is analyzed using a geographic information system and spatial statistical techniques. Results suggest significant spatial variation in broadband Internet access as a function of provider competition in the United States. Copyright 2004 Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky..

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“…Almost all studies in this emerging field focus on the networks' fibre-optics links and not on their peering points with the exception of Grubesic and O'Kelly (2002), underplaying effectively the importance of the Internet's nodes. However, this focus on the Internet's edges does not depreciate the importance of the backbone networks for the urban geography.…”

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The Spatial Distribution of Internet Backbone Networks in Europe

Tranos¹,

Gillespie

2009

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This article attempts to explain the factors which determine the spatial distribution of the Internet backbone networks in Europe.These networks facilitate the modern economy by interconnecting cities, enabling communication and exchange and, consequently, enhancing the interaction between them.This infrastructural capital for the knowledge economy is far from evenly spread across Europe.The article uses principal components analysis and regression models to examine the influence of a range of socio-economic variables on the spatial distribution of the Internet backbones in Europe, and concludes that they largely follow existing patterns of development, urban concentrations of knowledge, nodes of transport provision and patterns of high accessibility.

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Using Points of Presence to Measure Accessibility to the Commercial Internet

Cited by 53 publications

References 9 publications

Variations in the Broadband‐Business Connection across the Urban Hierarchy

Variations in the Broadband‐Business Connection across the Urban Hierarchy

Waiting for Broadband: Local Competition and the Spatial Distribution of Advanced Telecommunication Services in the United States

The Spatial Distribution of Internet Backbone Networks in Europe

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