Carlos Osorio

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

Gillett, Sharon E., William H. Lehr and Carlos Osorio (2004). Local Government Broadband Initiatives. Telecommunications Policy 28, August/September 2004, p. 537-558. http://itc.mit.edu/itel/docs/2003/localgovbrbd.pdf
This is a paper by a group of researchers at MIT. Other research by this group can be found at the MIT Communications Futures Broadband Working Group website: http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/broadband.html#accomplish.