Download or read book Rural Broadband at a Glance written by Economic Research Service (USDA) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three-quarters of U.S. residents used the Internet to access information, education, and services in 2007. Widespread Internet adoption suggests it has great value to individuals, businesses, and communities. Broadband Internet access is becoming essential for both businesses and households; many compare its evolution to other technologies now considered common necessities--such as cars, electricity, televisions, microwave ovens, and cell phones. Although rural residents enjoy widespread access to the Internet, they are less likely to have high-speed, or broadband, Internet access than their urban counterparts. Nonetheless, broadband access for both rural and urban populations increased rapidly between 2000 and 2006. The main limitation of slower, dial-up Internet access is that many content-dense applications and documents, and such critical services as anti-virus protections, are not readily usable via dial-up due to low transmission capability and speed. Broadband Internet access in rural areas is less prevalent than in more densely populated areas of the country. Circumstantial evidence suggests that the difference in access may lie in the higher cost and limited availability of broadband Internet in rural areas. As a result, rural residents depend more on Internet use outside of the home, relying on places like the library, school, and work, where broadband Internet access is available.
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Download or read book Rural Broadband at a Glance 2009 Edition written by Peter L. Stenberg and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Internet has become an important tool for businesses, households, and governments to interact with each other in the creation of economic activity. The growth of Internet use over the past 10-15 years has been impressive - over 63 percent of rural residents count themselves as Internet users. Questions remain, however, about equal access to the Internet; particularly through the high-speed connections required to fully experience the Internet's potential. This report looks at growth in broadband Internet use among rural and urban residents and households and discusses some of the issues and data needs that require more attention among researchers and policymakers.
Download or read book Broadband Internet s Value for Rural America written by Peter Sternberg and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As broadband ¿ or high-speed ¿ Internet use has spread, Internet applications requiring high transmission speeds have become an integral part of the ¿Information Economy,¿ raising concerns about those who lack broadband access. This report analyzes: (1) rural broadband use by consumers, the community-at-large, and bus.; (2) rural broadband availability; and (3) broadband¿s social and econ. effects on rural areas. In general, rural communities have less broadband Internet use than metro communities. Rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth, which conforms to supplemental research on the benefits that rural bus., consumers, and communities ascribe to broadband Internet use. Illustrations.
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Download or read book Review of Rural Broadband Programs Operated by the U S Department of Agriculture s Rural Utilities Service written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Specialty Crops, Rural Development, and Foreign Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadband Internet written by Ellen S. Cohen and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The internet has become so widespread that such issues as access, regulation and related policies have become major factors in the economy and social fabric of societies in every part of the world. Peoples without running water are demanding access to the internet and those without it are becoming deprived citizens. This new book examines current issues of interest to the blossoming area.
Download or read book Bringing Broadband to Rural America Update to Report on a Rural Broadband Strategy written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadband Access in Rural Areas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Farm Fresh Broadband written by Christopher Ali and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the failure of U.S. broadband policy to solve the rural–urban digital divide, with a proposal for a new national rural broadband plan. As much of daily life migrates online, broadband—high-speed internet connectivity—has become a necessity. The widespread lack of broadband in rural America has created a stark urban–rural digital divide. In Farm Fresh Broadband, Christopher Ali analyzes the promise and the failure of national rural broadband policy in the United States and proposes a new national broadband plan. He examines how broadband policies are enacted and implemented, explores business models for broadband providers, surveys the technologies of rural broadband, and offers case studies of broadband use in the rural Midwest. Ali argues that rural broadband policy is both broken and incomplete: broken because it lacks coordinated federal leadership and incomplete because it fails to recognize the important roles of communities, cooperatives, and local providers in broadband access. For example, existing policies favor large telecommunication companies, crowding out smaller, nimbler providers. Lack of competition drives prices up—rural broadband can cost 37 percent more than urban broadband. The federal government subsidizes rural broadband by approximately $6 billion. Where does the money go? Ali proposes democratizing policy architecture for rural broadband, modeling it after the wiring of rural America for electricity and telephony. Subsidies should be equalized, not just going to big companies. The result would be a multistakeholder system, guided by thoughtful public policy and funded by public and private support.
Download or read book Amber Waves written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Broadband Internet s Value for Rural America written by United States Department of Agriculture and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As broadband-or high-speed-Internet use has spread, Internet applications requiring high transmission speeds have become an integral part of the "Information Economy," raising concerns about those who lack broadband access. This report analyzes (1) rural broadband use by consumers, the community-at-large, and businesses; (2) rural broadband availability; and (3) broadband's social and economic effects on rural areas. It also summarizes results from an ERS-sponsored workshop on rural broadband use, and other ERS-commissioned studies. In general, rural communities have less broadband Internet use than metro communities, with differing degrees of broadband availability across rural communities. Rural communities that had greater broadband Internet access had greater economic growth, which conforms to supplemental research on the benefits that rural businesses, consumers, and communities ascribe to broadband Internet use.
Download or read book Hearing to Review Rural Broadband Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Biotechnology, Specialty Crops, and Foreign Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategies for Rural Broadband written by Bernd Holznagel and published by Gabler Verlag. This book was released on 2010-06-11 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delivers insights for immediate action on two levels: The management perspective addresses the economic feasibility, while the legal perspective provides municipal decision-makers with FAQ-type guidelines for the swift implementation and legal applicability of rural broadband rollout solutions.
Download or read book Rural Consumer Internet Perspectives written by Angela Hollman and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Digital connectedness has grown markedly over the last ten years. However, digital deserts, particularly in rural areas, remain. Likewise, data documenting this phenomenon exists, though internet throughput at the household level and its connections to consumer satisfaction are understudied. This lacuna in scholarship is primarily due to the lack of robust data collected from individual households. This study aims to further our understanding of these dynamics by leveraging a unique high-resolution dataset of internet throughput speeds connected to demographic and satisfaction survey data. This dataset offers an unprecedented picture of the connections between internet performance, demographics, location, and household satisfaction. The dataset was created using two collection mechanisms. First, a modified Raspberry Pi, dubbed a Quantitative Throughput (QT) unit, is affixed to the household's primary internet connection. Through this process, ping data, download, and upload speeds were collected every five minutes for one week from approximately 250 rural households. Second, the device prompts the user to complete a survey, collecting demographic information and satisfaction indices of various aspects of their internet service. This combination of internet throughput data linked to household demographics and internet satisfaction allows for analyzing the connection between internet performance and consumer satisfaction at the hitherto understudied household level. We establish several unexpected trends in the data. Surprisingly, we find no correlation between throughput speed, performance, and household cost. However, we find the importance of the internet service provider (ISP) and type of internet connection media affecting overall satisfaction. Likewise, the spatial patterns that emerge from the data are closely linked to individual ISP accessibility. Certain ISPs and types of service perform significantly better, as evidenced by higher throughput metrics and overall reported satisfaction on the survey data. These results are confirmed using spatial clustering algorithms, which predominately group households by mode of delivery and ISP despite neither variable being used in the sorting process. Our findings suggest that certain broadband delivery methods provide markedly lower degrees of satisfaction and performance. This, combined with the dearth of competition in many rural areas, create pockets of low performance and satisfaction. Crucially, these areas of lower performance and satisfaction are not linked to any intrinsic aspects of rurality, such as population density or demographics; we often see markedly different numbers within relatively small geographic areas. Instead, they result from contingencies of ISP service and delivery mode. Considering this finding and our findings that consumer cost and throughput are unlinked, we suggest a closer look at FCC policies that are agnostic towards the mode of delivery. An attempt to integrate performance metrics and consumer satisfaction into the FCC structure of subsidies is perhaps warranted to protect consumer interests. Otherwise, a policy of ostensive neutrality towards the mode of delivery is, in effect, accepting lower levels of household satisfaction.
Download or read book OECD Regions and Cities at a Glance 2020 written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regions and Cities at a Glance 2020 provides a comprehensive assessment of how regions and cities across the OECD are progressing towards stronger, more sustainable and more resilient economies and societies. In the light of the health crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the report analyses outcomes and drivers of social, economic and environmental resilience.
Download or read book Rural Broadband written by Angele A. Gilroy and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
