Digital Agenda for Europe. Though many solutions are proposed in literature, satellite communication has been identified as … the only possible solution for rural areas, due to its global coverage. However, deploying an end-to-end satellite … solution might be in some cases not cost-effective. In this paper, we propose a converged solution that combines satellite …

percentage points increase in internet penetration rates. This is a huge increase, meaning that the deployment of these cables … has almost doubled the penetration of Internet in the sub-continent's population. On the other hand, exogenous sources of … internet and mobile penetration rates, to lower investments in ICTs, and to increase mobile-cellular tariffs and the wireline …

My contribution is concerned with measures of Internet quality and availability used and usable in the analysis of the … so called digital divide. The usage of the share of Internet users in the population – widely used in economic analysis … of the data, as some industrialized countries are already close to a share of 100 % Internet users in the population …

This paper discusses measures of Internet quality and availability used and usable in the analysis of the so called … digital divide. The usage of the share of Internet users in the population - widely used in economic analysis - can easily be … industrialized countries are already close to a share of 100 % Internet users in the population, while the ratio of Internet users to …