Explaining Patterns of Broadband Development in OECD Countries

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Author(s): Inmaculada Cava Ferreruela (Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain)
Copyright: 2008
Pages: 20
Source title: Handbook of Research on Global Diffusion of Broadband Data Transmission
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Yogesh K. Dwivedi (Swansea University, UK), Anastasia Papazafeiropoulou (Brunel University, UK)and Jyoti Choudrie (University of Hertfordshire, UK )
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-851-2.ch046

Keywords: Engineering Science Reference / Global Information Technology / Media & Communications / Telecommunications

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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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