There are many ways of examining how broadband relates to economic development. One that comes to mind is a country‘s global competitiveness. An index for measuring such competitiveness, the Global Competitiveness Index, ranks business competitiveness across 127 countries with the U.S. ranked...

While connectivity supply is growing exponentially, likely as a result of developments in the semiconductor industry, research on connectivity has mostly focused on the demand side. Such approach is however unable to account for the introduction of unforeseen ser-vices, which is also...

The connection between broadband deployment and economic prosperity in the United States has garnered public attention due to stimulus plan funding authorized in February 2009 for broadband planning and deployment initiatives. The importance of innovation for a nation’s economic well-being is...

Based on multiple metrics, the U.S. compares favorably with other developed countries in terms of innovative broadband use which is critical to sustainable economic growth. That favorable comparison may erode in future years if the U.S. fails to respond effectively to three inter-related...

This article presents an econometric analysis for the effects of fixed broadband penetration on the growth rate of GDP per capita for a panel of 35 developed and developing countries over an annual period of 33 years (1981 - 2013). The article contributes to the telecommunications literature by...

This paper investigates whether predictions of future economic growth can be improved by using standard measures of broadband infrastructure. The investigation is carried out by comparing the predictive accuracy of dynamic panel models of economic growth estimated with and without measures of...