One cannot write about rural broadband in rural India without addressing the widely prevalent viewpoint often expressed by skeptics in this regard. India's low literacy levels, multiplicity of regional languages and lack of availability of locally relevant content has often been quoted as an...

This article analyzes the causal impact of advanced broadband accessibility on firm performance. We exploit a unique local policy intervention of a staged broadband infrastructure installation across rural municipalities in the Province of Trento (Italy), generating a source of exogenous...

The tighter price regulation the FCC proposes could lead to large reductions in revenue earned as returns to ILECs' investment in infrastructure in rural areas. Approximate yet reasonable calculations yield an estimated $1.4B of revenue destroyed by the new price regulation, with a range from...

The paper described the challenge of provision of rural broadband provision by examining the economics of 4 fiber to the home networks in different parts of the US. It shows how streaming video entertainment is the largest and growing category of traffic and which puts unique demands on the...

We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...