My scale or your meter? Evaluating methods of measuring the Internet

Information Economics and Policy

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 363-383

  Giacomello, Giampiero ^a   Picci, Lucio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Infrastructure; Internet; Measuring the Internet; Public capital

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

INFRASTRUCTURE;

INTERNET;

INFRASTRUCTURE; INTERNET; MEASUREMENT METHOD; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION;

EID: 0141614828     PISSN: 01676245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6245(03)00003-9     Document Type: Article

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