Routing Data as a Measure of Internet Access

I propose a pair of new measures of Internet access which can be computed using minimal computational resources, across large geographic areas, from publicly-available data which describe how information is routed across the Internet. These measures can also be computed at relatively fine levels of detail. I then demonstrate empirically that these measures possess similar explanatory power when compared to measures previously used in the literature, and that the two measures capture largely distinct aspects of Internet access.

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