Broadband utilization in space: Effects of population and economic structure

Information Society

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 341-354

  Horrigan, John B ^a   Stolp, Chandler ^b   Wilson, Robert H ^b  

^a Pew Internet and American Life Project   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Broadband utilization; Demography and the Internet; Geography and the Internet; Internet use

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749011719     PISSN: 01972243     EISSN: 10876537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01972240600904290     Document Type: Article

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