Local government broadband initiatives
A growing number of communities across the United States are adopting policies to promote advanced telecommunication services, including broadband access. This paper offers a taxonomy for classifying these local government initiatives and provides preliminary empirical results for a sample of commun...
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Published in | Telecommunications policy Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 537 - 558 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Kidlington
Elsevier Ltd
01.08.2004
Butterworth-Heinemann |
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Summary: | A growing number of communities across the United States are adopting policies to promote advanced telecommunication services, including broadband access. This paper offers a taxonomy for classifying these local government initiatives and provides preliminary empirical results for a sample of communities with municipal electric utilities
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The database on MEUs and their communications service offerings was provided by the American Public Power Association (APPA), a trade association of public power companies (http://www.appanet.org). In particular we acknowledge the assistance of Ron Lunt, Director of Broadband Services for the APPA, who provided invaluable help in acquiring and interpreting the data.
that are in the forefront of efforts to deploy publicly owned communications infrastructure. |
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Bibliography: | ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 0308-5961 1879-3258 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.telpol.2004.05.001 |