The Economist has published an article on the issue rebutting Thomas Bleha's findings. "Prophet of American technodoom" http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3887163 Incidentally, this Discussion Paper published in 2003 by the Oxford Internet Institute may be of interest to some degree. "Broadband Internet: The Power to Reconfigure Access" http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/OIIFD1_200308.pdf regards, Miraj Khaled --- air-l-aoir.org-request@listserv.aoir.org wrote: Message: 10 Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:14:07 -0500 From: Lon Berquist <berquist@uts.cc.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: [Air-l] Down to the Wire To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org 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:

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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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