Transcription of UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE - OECD
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UNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE OECD 2001 Applications for permission to reproduce or translate all or part of this work should be made to:OECD Publications, 2 rue Andr Pascal, 75775 Paris Cedex 16, FOR ECONOMIC CO-OPERATION AND DEVELOPMENTUNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL DIVIDEUNDERSTANDING THE DIGITAL TO ICTs AND THE INTERNET ..7 telecommunication access paths are the basic symptom of the DIGITAL DIVIDE ..7 The DIGITAL DIVIDE is even more marked for Internet access ..8 Competition is the road to PRICE OF ACCESS ..10 With liberalisation, access prices are dropping ..10 Liberalisation is also leading to lower bandwidth the same time, Internet access prices are of Internet hosts are rising rapidly among OECD countries remain THE INTERNET.
• At international level, the most basic, and the most important, indicator of the digital divide is the number of access lines per 100 inhabitants. It is the leading indicator for the level of universal service in telecommunications and a fundamental measure of the international digital divide.
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