How has innovative and competitive behavior in computing and Internet markets evolved over the past half-century? In … many of the same economic terms. In the second section, I closely examine the US commercial Internet experience in the 1990 …s. While the peculiar events that led to the invention of the commercial Internet explain some of the salient and unique …

This Economic Letter summarizes research finding that the use of basic internet technology is widely dispersed among … both urban and rural locations. Moreover, although advanced internet technology was adopted most rapidly in large urban … areas, the research finds that much (but not all) of the apparent "digital divide" in internet use can be explained by the …

centralized state and federal agencies. This presumption was long outdated prior to the commercialization of the Internet. With … the Internet, the long-forecast convergence of voice, video, and text bits became a reality. Legislation, capped by the …, Internet architecture in a commercial era, communications infrastructure development, the Digital Divide, and information …

This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of … Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S. policy for universal access. We examine the Fall … by ISPs with local focus. There was little trace of the early imprint of government subsidies for Internet access at …

This study analyzes the geographic spread of commercial Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the leading suppliers of … Internet access. The geographic spread of ISPs is a key consideration in U.S. policy for universal access. We examine the Fall … by ISPs with local focus. There was little trace of the early imprint of government subsidies for Internet access at …

This study analyzes the service offerings of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the commercial suppliers of Internet … access in the United States. It presents data on the services of 2089 ISPs in the summer of 1998. By this time, the Internet … paper develops an Internet access industry product code which classifies these services. Significant heterogeneity across …

Many analysts anticipate a need to redefine universal service to account for Internet-related services and other … combinations of communication and computing. This concern motivates a study of the geographic spread of the commercial Internet … Service Provider (ISP) market suppliers of Internet access in the United States. The paper argues that two business models …

The Internet comprises thousands of independently operated networks, where bilaterally negotiated interconnection … negotiating interconnection agreements at the internet layer due to reduced bargaining power of European networks and increased …

This paper analyzes the extent to which the Internet's global domain name resolution (DNS) system has preserved its …