The economic geography of the internet's infrastructure

Economic Geography

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 399-424

  Malecki, Edward J ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet; Networks; Telecommunications; Urban hiearchy; World cities

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTICS; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; INTERNET; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 0036823362     PISSN: 00130095     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1944-8287.2002.tb00193.x     Document Type: Article

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