[Air-l] Down to the Wire

[Miraj Khaled]

The Economist has published an article on the issue
rebutting Thomas Bleha's findings.

"Prophet of American technodoom"
http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=3887163


Incidentally, this Discussion Paper published in 2003
by the Oxford Internet Institute  may be of interest
to some degree.

"Broadband Internet: The Power to Reconfigure Access"
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/resources/publications/OIIFD1_200308.pdf


regards,

Miraj Khaled



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Message: 10
Date: Wed,  4 May 2005 11:14:07 -0500
From: Lon Berquist <berquist at uts.cc.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: [Air-l] Down to the Wire
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org

I'm surprised no one has yet mentioned Bob Crandell's
study from a few 
years
ago:

"The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic
Benefit of 
Widespread
Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access,"  
http://www.criterioneconomics.com/docs/Crandall_Jackson_500_Billion_Opportunity_July_2001.pdf

Lon Berquist
berquist at uts.cc.utexas.edu

Quoting Ben Anderson <benander at essex.ac.uk>:

> replying to myself. Bad form. But I missed off this
ref which neatly  
> points out the low quality thinking in policy (and
some academic)  
> circles on these issues and gives a timely review of
the evidence  
> there is:
> 
> Firth, L. and D. Mellor (2005). "Broadband: benefits
and problems."  
> Telecommunications Policy 29(2-3): 223-236.

 
> On 4 May 2005, at 10:10, Ben Anderson wrote:
> 
>> On 3 May 2005, at 07:36, Ellis Godard wrote:
>> Eh... Is there good data (heck, *any* data) that
broadband increases
>> growth, productivity, or quality of life?
>> Not yet at the 'everyday life' level. There may
have >>been macro-economic studies....




Miraj Khaled
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