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Network Developments in Support of Innovation and User Needs

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  • James Enck
  • Taylor Reynolds

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This report makes a case for investment in a competitive, open-access national fibre-to-the-home network rollout based on potential spillovers in four key sectors of the economy: electricity, health, transportation and education. This research offers a new approach to evaluating the costs of building the most forward-looking network possible by evaluating what short-term cost savings (benefits) would have to be achieved in other key economic sectors to justify the investment. On average, a cost savings of between 0.5% and 1.5% in each of the four sectors over ten years resulting directly from the new broadband network platform could justify the cost of building a national point-to-point, fibre-to-the-home network.

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  • James Enck & Taylor Reynolds, 2009. "Network Developments in Support of Innovation and User Needs," OECD Digital Economy Papers 164, OECD Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:oec:stiaab:164-en
    DOI: 10.1787/5kml8rfvtbf6-en
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    3. Ferrandis, Jesús & Ramos, Sergio & Feijóo, Claudio, 2021. "An assessment of estimation models and investment gaps for the deployment of high-speed broadband networks in NUTS3 regions to meet the objectives of the European Gigabit Society," Telecommunications Policy, Elsevier, vol. 45(7).

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