Drei Viertel der TV-Frequenzen, die bisher dem analogen Fernsehen dienen, sind durch die Einführung der digitalen Fernseh- und Rundfunkübertragung ab 2009 neu zu vergeben. Besonders die mobile Breitbandkommunikation wird davon profitieren. Die Nachfrage nach Lizenzen ist groß, sodass nicht...

A review of literature indicates that most approaches emphasize bridging the digital divide, an approach focused solely on material gaps. However, the digital divide is perhaps the last of many, preceded by social, educational, economic, knowledge, and motivational divides. This stems from an...

The report underpins the discussion of applications of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in the welfare sector. Greater use of ICTs is embedded in the Europa 2020 growth strategy which sees the availability of broadband access as a prerequisite for the use of such services....

To identify the determinants of cross-country disparities in personal computer and Internet penetration, we examine a panel of 161 countries over the 1999-2001 period. Our candidate variables include economic variables (income per capita, years of schooling, illiteracy, trade openness),...

"Access to new information and communication technologies (ICT) remains extremely unequally distributed across and within societies. While there have been a good deal of popular discussions about this "digital divide", not much is known about the quantitative significance of its various...

The newest dimension of the Digital Divide is access to broadband (high-speed) Internet service. Using comprehensive U.S. data covering all forms of access technology (chiefly DSL and cable modem), I look for evidence of unequal broadband availability in areas with high concentrations of poor,...

Der Anteil der Personen in Deutschland, die das Internet nutzen, nimmt stetig zu, vor allem durch eine häufigere Internetnutzung bei den Älteren. Immerhin jede/r Siebte ab 14 Jahren ist jedoch "offline", darunter vor allem ältere Personen, und damit einhergehend Personen mit geringer formaler...

Die Digitalisierung innerhalb der Wohnung nimmt fortwährend zu, vor allem auch durch vernetzte "Dinge" des "Internet of Things". Für die kommenden Jahre wird von einer noch stärkeren Verbreitung vernetzter Haushaltsgeräte, Unterhaltungstechnik und Alltagshelfer in Haushalten ausgegangen....

As is well-recognized, market dominance is a typical outcome in markets with network effects. A firm with a larger installed base others a more attractive product which induces more consumers to buy its product which produces a yet bigger installed base advantage. Such a setting is investigated...

The European Commission has recently stepped up its promotion of the ?Integrated Product Policy?. The objective of the IPP is to support the realisation of environmental product innovations and thus to achieve a broad reduction of all environmental impacts throughout a product?s life cycle....