measuring broadband?s economic impact 1 final report prepared for the us department of commerce development administration national technical assistance training research and evaluation project 99 07 13829 february 2006 2 broadband deployment submitted to u s 1401 constitution ave nw washington dc 20230 by sharon e gillett sharoneg mit edu principal investigator dr william h lehr carlos a osorio massachusetts institute technology professor marvin sirbu carnegie mellon university co sponsored industrial partners mit?s communications futures program listed at http cfp 28 3 executive summary does internet access matter economy given how recently has been adopted little empirical investigated its analysis presented in this represents rst attempt measure already deployed technologies ap plying controlled econometric techniques data on availability performance entire other words study differs from others
