technological feature of the telecommunication infrastructure that generated substantial variation in the quality of Internet access … across households. The speed of a domestic connection rapidly decays with the distance of a user’s line from the network’s … social capital from 1997 to 2017, we show that access to fast Internet caused a significant decline in civic and political …

than being based on stationary operators masts. Internet Service Providers traditionally rely on Border Gateway Protocols … Internet Periphery Analysis, pointing towards the roles of existing traffic peering agreements among the Internet Service …

We study how the diffusion of broadband Internet affects social capital using two data sets from the UK. Our empirical … infrastructure that was designed in the 1930s. The actual speed of an Internet connection, in fact, rapidly decays with the distance … Internet caused a significant decline in forms of offline interaction and civic engagement. Overall, our results suggest that …

In this paper, we analyze the problem of congestion and quality loss of data transmission through the Internet from an … be very convenient for Internet users at the same time. We show that any ex ante regulation in the sense of strict Net …

Does the Internet undermine social capital or facilitate inter-personal and civic engagement in the real world? Merging … unique telecommunication data with geo-coded German individuallevel data, we investigate how broadband Internet affects …-owned telecommunication provider in the 1990s that still hinders broadband Internet access for many households. We find no evidence that the …