. In this study, we do not only analyse whether the aid was effective in solving a market failure – low broadband coverage … aid significantly increased broadband coverage. More importantly, we find that the number of internet providers has … broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of the French State aid plan for broadband deployment, the Plan France Très … Haut Débit. According to State aid rules, public subsidies should not be substitute for private investment and should … more than 34,000 municipalities in mainland France over 2014-2019. We then assess whether private investment would have …

We estimated a mixed logit model using data on the broadband technologies chosen by 94,388 subscribers of a single … European broadband operator on a monthly basis between January and December 2014. We found that consumers have similar … valuation of DSL connection speeds in the range between 1 and 8 Mbps. Moreover, in January 2014, the valuation of FttH …

find that increasing broadband speed by 1 Mbit/s increases test scores by 1.37 percentile ranks in the years 2005 …

coverage than non-aided municipalities. This increase in broadband coverage, closing the digital divide, results in an average … broadband coverage through state aid protects rural areas from depopulation, but does not contribute to a further closing of the …We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the …

We study substitution between fixed and mobile broadband services in South Africa using survey data on 134 … broadband penetration. …

regions with better ex ante 3G signal coverage, highlighting the role of the digital divide in adaption to new technologies …