The purchase of Internet subscriptions in Native American households

Peter L. Stenberg

Telecommunications Policy, 2018, vol. 42, issue 1, 51-60

Abstract: With the growing use of the Internet for information, education, job hunting, and other activities, its economic value increases. The incidence of in-home Internet subscriptions, however, varies across households, and Native American households are less likely than other American households to subscribe to Internet services. The lack of universality has, potentially, enormous consequences for households not subscribing to the Internet. Using descriptive statistics and logistic regressions we find that the growth of U.S. Internet subscriptions may have peaked and exhibited a small decline between 2012 and 2015; technology adoption has reached the third stage of the S-curve. Internet adoption in Native American households, however, may not have fully reached into the third stage. While rural-urban location is a small factor for non-Native American households, it remains a major factor for Native American households.

Keywords: Internet subscriptions; Households; Rural; Native American (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2017.08.003

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