Marvin A. Sirbu

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

Banerjee, A. and M. Sirbu (2005). Towards Technologically and Competitively Neutral Fiber to the Home (FTTH) Infrastructure. In Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks. I. Chlamtac, A. Gumaste and C. Czabo. New Jersey: John Wiley. http://itc.mit.edu/itel/docs/2003/banerjee_sirbu.pdf

Lehr, W. H., Sirbu, M. A., Gillett, S. E. (2006). Wireless is Changing
the Policy Calculus for Municipal Broadband. Government Information
Quarterly, 23:480–502. PDF:
http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/docs/2006/Wireless_Changing.pdf
This article summarizes traditional justifications for municipal entry
into communication services: (1) as a response to a market failure; (2)
as part of the local government’s role in providing basic
infrastructure services; or (3) as a way to opportunistically take
advantage of scale or scope economies afforded by investments or

Sirbu, Marvin, William Lehr, and Sharon Gillett (2006). Evolving
Wireless Access Technologies for Municipal Broadband. Government
Information Quarterly.
http://cfp.mit.edu/groups/broadband/docs/2006/Evolving_Wireless.pdf
Advances in wireless technology (including new digital encoding, signal
processing, routing, and antenna technologies) have expanded the range
of potential architectures, technologies, and radio frequencies (RF)
which are available for developing wireless broadband access
infrastructure. This paper gives an introduction to emerging trends in