Broadband speed equity: A new digital divide?

Applied Geography

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 25-33

  Riddlesden, Dean ^a   Singleton, Alex D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadband; Crowdsourced data; Digital divide; Geodemographics; GIS; Internet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901242843     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2014.04.008     Document Type: Article

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