impact

Lehr, William, Sharon Gillett, and Martin Sirbu (2005). Measuring
Broadband's Economic Impact. Broadband Properties Magazine, December
2005. http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/measuring_bb_pp.html. See the
same URL for academic and government report versions of the research.
This report by a group of MIT based researchers is a good summary of
research to date on the relationship between broadband and the economy.
It includes a discussion of why it is so difficult to measure this
relationship, and what data available in the future may help make this