Measuring Broadband’s Economic Impact
William H. Lehr, Carlos A. Osorio, Sharon E. Gillett, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Marvin A. Sirbu, Carnegie Mellon University
December 2005

• To date, these discussions have suffered from a lack of solid empirical data measuring the economic impact of broadband.
• Communities in which mass-market broadband was available by December 1999 experienced more rapid growth in (1) employment, (2) the number of businesses overall, and (3) businesses in IT-intensive sectors.

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