Residential demand for access to the Internet

Abstract

Madden and Simpspn (1997). With the aggressive marketing of cable modems and ADSL service, a growing number of residential households in the U.S. now have a choice regarding how they access the Internet. The choice set available, however, is not uniform. In some areas, the only form of access is through dial-up modem, while in other areas various forms of high-speed access (cable modems or ADSL) are available as well. This paper reports the results from a set of models of Internet access where the models are differentiated by the availability of Internet access options. The models are based on the analysis of surveys submitted by over 20,000 households during the period January-March, 2000. 2 Among other things, we are able to report broadband penetration rates and compare those to Internet access estimates presented in the NTIA Report, Falling Through the Net: Toward Digital Inclusion. 3 In addition, we present a more complete set of estimated price elasticities for both basic and high-speed access to the Internet.

Does ICT in schools affect residential adoption and adult utilization outside schools?

“…This could happen because students ask for ICT, or because parents believe that ICT has educational benefit to their offspring, as Robertson, Soopramanien, and Fields (2004) found in the UK and Ortiz and Green (2011) found in the U.S. For example, more than 90% of parents in Ortiz and Green (2011) thought that access to a computer at home will have a positive effect on their children's success in life. The number of children in a household (which can be reflected by household size) was also found to be positively associated with Internet adoption (Rappoport, Kridel, Taylor, Alleman, & Duffy-Deno 2003;Savage & Waldman 2005).…”

“…The presence of additional students at a given educational level does not matter much for ICT adoption in households or utilization of ICT by family members, whether these students have no access to ICT, have access to computers but not the Internet, or have access to both computers and Internet at school. Although household size (or number of children in household) has been found to positively affect residential Internet adoption in the US (Rappoport et al, 2003;Savage & Waldman, 2005), it may not play the same role in developing countries.…”

Broadband Internet access, awareness, and use: Analysis of United States household data

“…This latter finding supports anecdotal evidence that consumers desire a service they can count on being available whenever they want to use it, with consistent speed (that is as fast as advertised), and any problems that do arise are immediately handled by good customer service. Savage and Waldman (2002) suggest that households that are more skillful online will value broadband attributes always on and speed higher. Table 14 shows the importance of access attributes by online experience, a reasonable approximation to household online ability or skillfulness.…”

“…Recent estimates from the BLS (2001), Grant (2002), NTIA (2002) Internet access choice by Goolsbee (2000), Rappoport et al (2002), and Varian (2002), which consider the trade-off between access speed and subscription price, there is limited objective research examining the service attributes preferred by consumers, and their demographics.…”

The Pricing of Pole Attachments: Implications and Recommendations

“…To this end, we also consider some alternate assumptions in our examples below, and the calculations easily permit other assumptions not considered here. In the case of the triple-play service, analyses by Rappaport et al (2003) and Hauge and Prieger (2009) suggest that the own price elasticity might be somewhat lower than -1.5, and it is almost surely declining over time, whatever its value. Complicating matters further, the time periods to which these various elasticities correspond are not identical, and all such values will have relatively short shelf-lives.…”