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Is Fast Broadband really worth the Subsidy?

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In the last issue of Competion and Regulation Times, Mark Obren surveyed the literature on likely productivity gains from investment in ultrafast fibre-based broadband networks: he found the theoretical case to be highly complex and gains likely to be very much less than what's frequently claimed. Here Simon Vose reviews a recent international study that examined the quality of the evidence for substantial government subsidies of ultra-fast broadband networks to nearly every home in the country.

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  • Simon Vose, 2011. "Is Fast Broadband really worth the Subsidy?," Competition & Regulation Times 373201, New Zealand Institute for the Study of Competition and Regulation.
    • Handle: RePEc:vuw:vuwcrt:373201
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