Internet use in rural and remote Western Australia

Collection:

Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)

Contributor:

Coble-Neal, Grant (main author), Madden, Gary (author)

Format:

Journal article

Publication Date:

2003

Published:

Australia

Location:

Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois

Related Item:

Telecommunications Policy

Related Item Details:

27 : 253-266

Subject Term:

adoption, Australia, information needs, Internet, online services, rural areas, rural communities, rural people, telecommunication, WWW (World Wide Web), information technology

Notes:

Using econometric models for Internet subscription and use, the authors found that estimation results indicating that price reduction will have a positive influence among existing Internet subscribers. "A model of Internet subscription itself, however, suggests that demand for access is derivative of education and work requirements." Survey data suggest that "isolation has little impact on Internet subscription, except the local isolation of Farms from their nearest town."