We analyze the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program, which was part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), to determine the extent to which political influence affected implementation of the program. While other studies analyze the ARRA in totality, we focus on a...

In order to encourage investment in telecommunication networks, governments have been encouraged to adopt a regulatory state model, with an independent regulatory authority that is subject to a system of appeals and to parliamentary oversight, providing different forms of accountability. The...

Case Studies discuss the economic benefits of the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as estimate how firms optimize their digital performance. Paper presents initial estimates of how large an impact IoT will have on the US economy through 2025

Using a forecasting framework, this analysis illustrates how enterprise spending on Cloud Services will expand US GDP, jobs and technology spending. The preliminary forecast predicts the US economy will gain nearly 3 trillion Dollars in GDP and 8 Million new Jobs from 2015 to 2025. This suggests...

French Abstract: L'objectif de cette recherche est de faire ressortir l'impact des investissements dans les infrastructures de télécommunication dans les pays de la CEDEAO. Les analyses faites dans cet article portent sur les impacts des infrastructures de télécommunications du point de vue...

Millions of citizens and firms lack access to high speed internet, even though governmentspledged to spend huge sums of money to subsidize internet networks. In this paper we reviewsome systematic flaws of present subsidy policies and outline a promising alternative. We proposethat governments...

This Article presents a legal and economic framework for analyzing municipal broadband. Economics predicts, and the evidence confirms, that municipal broadband is in almost all scenarios subsidized entry, covering capital costs and losses with tax dollars and other internal transfers....

Launched in 2019, this study was designed to understand the repercussions of absent or poor home Internet connectivity on student performance and the associated costs to society. The focus was on Internet connectivity outside of school among middle and high school students enrolled in rural and...

In this study, we investigate empirically the relationship between telephone penetration and economic growth, using data for developing countries. Using 3SLS, we estimate a system of equations that endogenizes economic growth and telecom penetration. We find that the traditional economic factors...

Poland has significantly upgraded its infrastructure network over the past decade. However, bottlenecks still weigh on productivity growth and environmental and health outcomes. The EU 2014-20 programming period is an opportunity to improve the management of infrastructure investment. In the...