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2007 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Sharing Wireless Internet in Urban Neighbourhoods
verfasst von : Matthew Wong, Andrew Clement
Erschienen in: Communities and Technologies 2007
Verlag: Springer London
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Over the last decade, Internet use in countries around the world has grown dramatically. This is especially true in Canadian cities, and Canada is widely acknowledged as having strong broadband penetration rates (
Frieden 2005
;
Wu 2004
). Residential households are increasingly adopting Internet technology and using it in their daily activities. In large urban centres, Internet usage rates approach 80%, overwhelmingly via broadband connections (Statistics Canada 2006). Users commonly report using the Internet for many facets of their lives, including communication, entertainment, and information-seeking in the home, at work, and at school (
Dryburgh 2001
).