I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Bob Crandell's study from a few years ago: "The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access," http://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/Crandall_Jackson_500_Billion_Opportun... Lon Berquist berquist@uts.cc.utexas.edu Quoting Ben Anderson <benander@essex.ac.uk>:
replying to myself. Bad form. But I missed off this ref which neatly points out the low quality thinking in policy (and some academic) circles on these issues and gives a timely review of the evidence there is:
Firth, L. and D. Mellor (2005). "Broadband: benefits and problems." Telecommunications Policy 29(2-3): 223-236.
On 4 May 2005, at 10:10, Ben Anderson wrote:
On 3 May 2005, at 07:36, Ellis Godard wrote:
Eh... Is there good data (heck, *any* data) that broadband increases growth, productivity, or quality of life?
Not yet at the 'everyday life' level. There may have been macro- economic studies....
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