We contribute to the role of telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth in three ways. We separately examine fixed-line and mobile telephone subscription levels. We compare results across periods and regions that differ by the level of development. In addition, we develop a method...

The social rate of return of mobile broadband infrastructure is an important indicator for informing the allocation of public and private capital to the telecommunications sector, yet no estimates are currently available in the literature. The consensus in the literature is that to estimate the...