The effects of broadband deployment on output and employment: a cross-sectional analysis of U.S. data

Abstract

While most communications sector analysts concur that the ability to deliver broadband communications is a critical feature of the modern global communications infrastructure, there is limited recent empirical research on the economic effects of broadband. In particular, much of the available research is now several years old or refers to the benefits of the Internet generally or more broadly of the digital economy rather than to the broadband telecommunications infrastructure per se.