Presents a method for estimating the impact on national development of installation of telecommunication facilities in rural areas of developing countries. A methodology developed by Hardy is applied to three groups of developing countries and a hypothetical rural region to estimate the impact...

This article discusses the challenges facing the US telecommunications industry in the context of rapid changes affecting the rural economy. The structural shift in the national economy towaeds services and information based activities has generally worked to the disadvantage of rural areas....

Providing computers and Internet access to members of the community has taken several forms in many countries over the past several years. Called community networks, telecenters, community technology centers, or Free-Nets, such endeavors represent a range of institutional bases, of ideological...

The post-divestiture era and clear internationalization of the US economy have brought with them startling new developments in telecommunications industries. However, the battle cry of 'privatization' in Europe and 'competition' in the USA accompanying them carry an array of justifications whose...

Even as geographic disparities in high speed Internet access narrow, an urban-rural broadband gap persists, pointing to the importance of individual differences in motivations to adopt broadband as the key to closing the gap. Diffusion of innovation is reconceptualized through contemporary...

This research investigates Internet connectivity in rural regions, looking specifically at four states in the US. Access to the Internet has assumed new significance for commercial and political reasons, and remote and sparsely populated areas typically lack the telecommunications infrastructure...

A vision of improved telecommunications infrastructure leading to dramatic improvements in the economies and the quality of life in developing countries is now supported by an increasing body of evidence. Economic justification of the necessary investment depends on the availability of...

A two-way causal relationship between telecommunications infrastructure investment and economic development, established for the US economy in previous analysis, is tested at the more localized state and sub-state level and for two specific sub-categories of telecommunications infrastructure...

Time series analyses of 31 years of US data (1958-88, inclusive) were consistent with two causal hypotheses. First, the level of US economic activity at any point in time is a reliable predictor ('cause') of the amount of US telecommunications investment at a later point in time. Second, the...