A revisit of fixed and mobile broadband diffusion in OECD: A new classification

Broadband communications lie at the heart of any developing information and digital society. Employing the Gompertz model in a time-series study, we analyze the factors that influence the diffusion of fixed and mobile broadband across the OECD countries that have been categorized in five groups based on the stage of innovation. We find that although the diffusion time is similar for both technologies, the mobile broadband diffusion's inflection time is asymmetric over the symmetric fixed broadband. The adoption time is almost double compared to the fixed, revealing a strong complement effect, when mostly the developed countries continue to prefer and depend on fixed broadband technology.