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An Analysis of Broadband Accessibility at the County Level in the United Slates: a Spatial Analytical Approach Using GIS

미국 카운티의 초고속 인터넷 서비스에 대한 접근성 분석: GIS를 이용한 공간 분석적 접근

  • Lee, Gun-Hak (Department of Geography and Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, The Ohio State University)
  • 이건학 (오하이오 주립대학교, 지리학과)
  • Published : 2008.06.30
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Abstract

As demand for high speed Internet service has explosively increased in the United States for the past decade, the construction or upgrades of telecommunication infrastructure has also been rapidly followed. Though currently many people in urbanized areas can be provided advanced broadband services, there are still challengeable areas to be served, such as remote or low populated areas because those areas are potentially non-profitable to commercial broadband service providers. This paper addresses the spatial disparity or in a broader term, the 'digital divide' of the broadband access by the county level in the United States. We propose the quantified measure of the county level broadband accessibility for identifying such digital divide. The developed measure is a hybrid form of the classical gravity based potential model and network topological accessibility, encouraged from the lack of prior efforts eying to explicitly incorporate the understanding of the whole process of the Internet access. The computational tasks are performed in a GIS platform, which includes several programmed functions.

지난 10여년간, 미국의 초고속 인터넷 서비스에 대한 수요가 폭발적으로 증가함에 따라, 정보통신 인프라의 신축 및 업그레이드 또한 빠르게 진행되었다. 비록 현재 도시화된 지역들의 많은 사람들이 고급 인터넷 서비스를 이용할 수 있지만, 원거리 또는 소규모 인구 지역과 같은 곳은 상업적 인터넷 서비스 공급자들에게 잠재적으로 이윤을 창출해 주지 못하기 때문에, 여전히 서비스에 대한 접근이 제한되고 있다. 이 연구는 미국 카운티에 따른 초고속 인터넷 서비스에 대한 접근의 공간적 불균형, 보다 광범위한 개념으로, '정보 격차' 에 대해서 다루고 있으며, 이러한 공간적 현상을 규명하기 위해 카운티에 따른 인터넷 접근성의 계량적 측정 모델을 제안하고 있다. 개발된 측정 모델은 전통적인 중력 모형 기반의 잠재력 모델과 네트웍 위상적 측정을 혼합함으로써 인터넷 서비스의 전반적 프로세스에 대한 이해를 명시적으로 포괄하고 있다. 접근성 측정을 위한 일련의 계산들은 GIS플랫폼에서 여러가지의 프로그램된 기능들을 통해 이루어졌다.

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