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“Connectivity Cost Burdens: Contingency cost measures for assessing household broadband affordability.” TPRC54, 40, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Practical Affordability Measurement<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Household-level affordability assessment considers three distinct dimensions to estimate the realized household burden of connectivity \u2013 connectivity cost-burden, contingency-cost exposure<\/em> and stress-test outcomes<\/em> relative to the full cost structure of sustaining household internet services.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Contingency Costs Reveal Practical Affordability Stress<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Contingency-cost exposure measured from non-base connectivity costs triggered by customer behaviour revealed significant differences in financial stress outcomes, including service disconnection, debt accumulation and budget adjustments for basic household expenses.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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H+It as a Prospective Stress-Test Benchmark<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The H+It benchmark is a complementary metric and prospective stress-test benchmark tool that presents a novel method for evaluating the impact of recurring internet costs and contingent costs against household financial capacity.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the end, Bell always wins \u2026\u201d A critical analysis of concentration in Toronto’s fibre-internet service market, Telecommunications Policy, Volume 50, Issue 3, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Public ROW access operates as an indirect subsidy to TSP infrastructure deployment<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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Capital works data reveals supply-side market structure otherwise obscured from regulators<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Municipal capital works records contain geospatial locations, construction dates, timelines, linear lengths, and project directionality for fibre infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Toronto\u2019s fibre market is nominally duopolistic but unevenly deployed<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Bell outpaces Rogers by approximately 3.5:1<\/strong>, and direct incumbent overlap appears limited: only 12.5%<\/strong> of 5,820 unique street segments show parallel incumbent deployment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Demand-side “Connectivity Cost Burdens: Contingency cost measures for assessing household broadband affordability.” TPRC54, 40, 2026 Practical Affordability Measurement Household-level affordability assessment considers three distinct dimensions to estimate the realized household burden of connectivity \u2013 connectivity cost-burden, contingency-cost exposure and stress-test outcomes relative to the full cost structure of sustaining household internet services. Contingency Costs Reveal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-160","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":232,"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/160\/revisions\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brimi.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}