In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

305 access. See broadband access/availability; dial-up access; Internet access acquisitions and mergers: FCC approval of, 148–50 advanced service lines, 160 African Medical and Relief Foundation (AMRF), 216 American Radio Relay League, Inc. v. FCC, 154–55 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, 110, 113, 189 analogies and metaphors: as tools for international comparisons, 97–98 analytic hierarchy process/static and dynamic analysis, 24–32 antitrust remedies, 146–48 Associated Press, 135 AT&T, 135, 149–50 Austin (Texas), 164–65 Australia, 11 average revenue per user, 93 Bagdikian, Ben, 133 Baker, Edwin, 135 barriers to entry, 139–40, 141 Bell, Daniel, 5 BellSouth, 149–50 Bhutan, 126–27 broadband: access (see broadband access/ availability); “broadband digital divide,” 106; democratic/civic participation and, 123–26, 128; economic impact of (see broadband economic impact); incentive problem, 63–64; information society participation and, 9–10, 14–18; measuring individual users’ use, 17–21, 18–21; penetration (see broadband adoption/penetration); public policy considerations (see broadband policy); relationship to ICT, 190–91; social and democratic importance of, 116–17; varying speeds and network characteristics, 10–14. See also Internet broadband access/availability: cable versus DSL, 165, 168–69, 170; versus dial-up, 160; evolution of US residential availability, 168–69; FCC data collection, 159, 160–65; impact of quality-of-service issues, 187–88; overview of conflicting indicators of, 158–60; in Tanzania, 213–14; understanding areas of unavailability in US (see broadband “disconnectedness”); US residential availability maps, 165–68. See also Internet access INDEX index 306 broadband adoption/penetration: approaches to challenges of increasing, 109–10; in Australia, 11; in Canada, 10–11; demographics of nonusers, 108–9; in Europe, 11; global data, 70, 104–5; “intensive” stage of, 19; in Japan, 11; lagging US performance, 104–5, 114–15; platform/network competition as a driver of, 71–72, 83, 86; research on adoption factors, 72–74; trends in US household adoption, 107–9; as a US policy concern, 111–12, 113–15. See also ubiquitous broadband broadband “disconnectedness”: areas that are “really well connected,” 181, 183, 185; areas with fewer than 7 service providers (level 2), 178–79, 180–81, 182–83; areas with fewer than 12 service providers (level 3), 179, 181, 184–85, 186–87; areas with no service providers (level 0), 171; areas with 1 to 4 service providers (level 1), 171–76; defining levels of, 169, 171, 176–78 broadband economic impact: considerations for European spending policy, 207–8; information society benefits and, 14–18; literature review of, 190–95; macroeconomic impact, 197–98; of spending in Europe, 198–207 broadband policy: adoption/penetration as a US policy concern, 111–12, 113–15; economic impact considerations in Europe, 207–8; need for “democratic capacity” measures, 122–26, 128; need to address quality-of-service issues, 187–88; universal service goals in US, 105–6, 107, 111 broadcast TV, 134, 136 Bush, George W., 113, 115 cable modem service: availability versus DSL, 165, 168–69, 170; court case concerning FCC classification of, 152–54; platform competition with DSL, 86 calling-party-pays (CPP), 92, 244n14 Canada, 10–11 Canadian Internet Use Survey, 10 capacity planning: use of traffic data in, 54–58 Cape Cod, 110 case studies: as tools for international comparisons, 98 census tracts: use in broadband data collection, 161, 165–68 China: informatization studies in, 23–24, 48; measuring the digital divide in (see digital divide measurement) Cingular Wireless, 149 civic participation. See democratic/civic participation closed IO models, 192 Closing the Broadband Divide (Horrigan), 109 clustering analysis, 32–36 Coming of Post-Industrial Society, The (Bell), 5 Communications Act of 1934, 113–14 communications sector: alternative measures of health/growth, 122–26; concentration in (see media concentration) communications services, international comparisons: application of LEF to mobile voice services, 95–97; challenges of service and price differentiation, 90–92; metrics for price comparisons, 92–95; tools for interpreting comparisons, 97–102; uses and challenges of, 88–90 Compaine, Ben, 134–35 computable general equilibrium (CGE), 208 Connectivity Scorecard, 89 ConnectKentucky, 165, 174 Connect Ohio, 110 converged ubiquitous (cubiquitous) broadband, 71 cost and benefit framework, 197–98 courts: appellate courts on FCC’s lack of empiricism and peer review, 152–55; deference to the FCC, 143–44. See also US Supreme Court Cuba, 119 cubiquitous broadband, 71 cybersociety, 116 data envelopment analysis (DEA), 41–46, 98–99 Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), 58, 239n32 [3.144.48.135] Project MUSE (2024...

Share