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The digital divide is the unequal access to digital technology, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and the internet. [1] [2] The digital divide worsens inequality around access to information and resources.
In 2007, the use of "hotspot" [98] zones (where people can access free Wi-Fi) was introduced to help bridge access to the Internet. Due to a majority percentage of American adults (55) connecting wirelessly, this policy can assist in providing more comprehensive network coverage, but also ignores an underprivileged population of people who do ...
The cell phone is the main source of internet access in the country. Because of this deficit in internet access between the genders there is a Gender Digital Divide in Myanmar. There is also a significant wage gap between men and woman in addition to limited leadership positions available to be filled.
James Andrew Lewis, senior fellow and program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, joins AOL.com to explain the biggest cybersecurity threats to the U.S. today.
Computers and the Internet provide users with improved education, which can lead to higher wages; the people living in nations with limited access are therefore disadvantaged. [15] This global divide is often characterized as falling along what is sometimes called the North–South divide of "northern" wealthier nations and "southern" poorer ones.
The right to Internet access, also known as the right to broadband or freedom to connect, is the view that all people must be able to access the Internet in order to exercise and enjoy their rights to freedom of expression and opinion and other fundamental human rights, that states have a responsibility to ensure that Internet access is broadly available, and that states may not unreasonably ...
As the number of phones connected to the network grows, the number of potential calls available to each phone grows and increases the utility of each phone, new and existing. In economics , a network effect (also called network externality or demand-side economies of scale ) is the phenomenon by which the value or utility a user derives from a ...
While cable Internet has always been classified by the FCC as an information service free of most regulation, DSL was regulated as a telecommunications service. In 2005, the FCC reclassified Internet access across the phone network, including DSL, as "information service" relaxing the common carrier regulations and unbundling requirement. [24]