We estimate the effect of broadband infrastructure, which enables high-speed internet, on economic growth in the panel … diffusion model where pre-existing voice-telephony and cable-TV networks predict maximum broadband penetration. We find that a … 10 percentage-point increase in broadband penetration raises annual per-capita growth by 0.9-1.5 percentage points …

While the role of telecommunication networks historically, and today broadband and the Internet, have been …." Many governments, particularly those in Southeast Asia, have adopted aggressive policies to deploy broadband networks and … to encourage the use of these applications. These, governments are motivated to promote broadband adoption in order to …