Investigating the Socio-economic Characteristics of Residential Consumers of Broadband in the UK

10th Americas Conference on Information Systems, AMCIS 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 1558-1567

  Choudrie, Jyoti ^a   Dwivedi, Yogesh Kumar ^a  

^a BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adopters; Broadband; consumers; non adopters; socio demographic attributes; UK

Indexed keywords

HOUSING; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ADOPTER; BROADBAND; CONSUMER; ECONOMIC CHARACTERISTICS; NON-ADOPTER; RESIDENTIAL CONSUMERS; SOCIO-DEMOGRAPHIC ATTRIBUTE; SOCIO-ECONOMICS; SOCIODEMOGRAPHICS; UK;

SURVEYS;

EID: 80052163495     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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