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Studies

• ITIF, "2012 State New Economy Index" (December 2012)
• TechNet, "2012 State Broadband Index" (December 2012)
• Congressional Budget Office Estimates the Current Impact of Recovery
  Act (December 2012)
• Booze & Co., "This is for Everyone: The Case for Universal Digitisation"
  (November 2012)
• Delloite and The New England Council, "Smart Infrastructure in New England:
  An Investment for Growth and Prosperity" (October 2012)
• Craig Settles, "Moving the Needle Forward on Broadband and Economic
  Development" (October 2012)
• RVA, "Exploding Five Common Broadband Myths" (June 2012)
• RVA, "FTTH Home Value Findings" (June 2012)
• Tim Ezzell, Dayton Lambert, Eric Ogle, "Strategies for Economic  Improve-
  ment in Appalachia's Distressed Rural Counties" (May 2012)
• Connected Nation, "The 2012 Jobs and Broadband Report" (May 2012)
• SNG, "Economic Impact Estimate: Professional and Technical Services
  Sector" (2012)
• Shapiro and Hassett: "The Employment Effects of Advances in Internet and
  Wireless Technology: Evaluating the Transitions from 2G to 3G and from
  3G to 4G" (January 2012)
• Bower, DeMaagd, Wildman, Yook, "Informing the Debate: Michigan's |
  Infrastructure Needs: Assessment and Policy Options," Michigan State
  University (undated)
• Craig Settles, "After the Stimulus: Broadband and Economic Development"
  (October 2011)
• Comcast, "Broadband Boosts Real Estate Metrics " (September 2011)
• SNG, "Broadband and eSolutions Linked to Business Growth” (September
  2011)
• Joan Engebretsen, “Comcast "Study: Broadband Boosts Real Estate Metrics,"
  Connected Planet (September 26, 2011)
• Deloitte, "The Impact of 4G Technology on Commerical Interactions,
  Economic Growth, and US Competitiveness" (August 2011)
• Raul Katz, et al, "Economic Impact of Wireless Rural Broadband"
  (March 2011)
• "FTTH Generates $40 Billion in New Economic Activity" (October 2010)
• Strategic Networks Group: "e-NC Strategy Report" (October 2010)
• Public Policy Institute of California: "Does Broadband Boost Local
  Economic Development?" (January 2010)
• FTTH Council: "Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation
  Broadband as a Municipal Utility" (updated October 2009)
• USDA: "Broadband Internet's Value to Rural America (August 2009)
• AT&T-funded study shows strong link between broadband use and economic
  development (November 2007)
• Crandall, Lehr, and Litan: "The Effects of Broadband Deployment on Output
  and Employment: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Data" (June 2007)
• Corning Study: "FTTH Gives Homewoners a Raise" (May 2007)
• Lehr, Orsorio, Gillett, and Sirbu: "Measuring Broadband's Economic Impact
  (MIT/Carnegie Mellon) (December 2005)
• Michael Curri, "Economic Development Through Bandwidth: Economic Impacts
  and the Business Case For Broadband" (September 2005)
• George Ford and Thomas Koutsky, "Broadband and Economic Development:
  A Municipal Case Study From Florida" (April 2005)
• George Ford, "Does Municipal Supply of Communications Crowd-Out Private
  Communications Investment? An Empirical Study" (February 2005)
• Doris Kelly, "A Study of the Economic and Community Benefits of Cedar Falls,
  Iowa's Municipal Telecommunications Network" (October 2003)
• Michael Curri, "South Dundas Economic Impact Study" (June 2003)

Case Histories 

• Scot Rourke, "From One Community to a Smart Region, Part 1"
• Scot Rourke, "From One Community to a Smart Region, Part 2"
• ILSR, "Wilson's Greenlight Leads North Carolina in Fast Internet"
  (December 2012)
• Craig Settles, "Indianola Says Public Utilities Key to Broadband Success"
  (November 2012)
• ILSR, "Community Broadband Creates Jobs" (November 2012)
• ILSR, "Chanute's Gig: One Rural Kansas Community's Tradition of Innovation
  Led to a Gigabit and Ubiquitous Wireless Coverage" (October 2012)
• Broadband Communities Magazine, "Municipal Snapshots" (2012)
• Connected Nation, "Let’s Make a Deal: Price Sensitivity and Optimal
  Subsidies" (August 2012)
• Craig Settles, “Connecting Communities: Danville, Va Rises From the Tobacco
  Ashes, Embraces Fiber Network,” GoogleConnectsKC (July 12, 2012)
• Chris Mitchell, "Florida Fiber: Martin County Saves Big With Gigabit Network"
  (June 2012)
• Melonee Hurt, “Martinsville Companies Expand, Create Jobs,” Livability (June 2012)
• Angela Simpson (NTIA Chief of Staff), "[DC-Net] Promoting Digital Inclusion in
  the Nation's Capital" (April 2012)
• Mayors' Bitrate Innovation Team, "Playing to Win In America's Digital Crossroad:
  A playbook for capitalizing on ultra-high-speed fiber in Kansas City, Kansas, and
  Kansas City, Missouri (May 2012)
• Andrew Cohill, "Danville Transforms Its Economy With Fiber" (April 2012)
• Chris Mitchell, "Broadband at the Speed of Light: How Three Communities Built
  Next-Generation Networks (April 2012)
• NATOA Comments to FCC on Community Broadband and Economic Development
  (December 2009)
• Report of the US Broadband Coalition on a National Broadband Strategy (September
  2009)
  
• Cathy Swirbul, “Broadband Boosts Economic Growth in Bristol,“ Public Power
  Magazine (March-April 2007)
• Allison Gowans, “Peregrine an Economic Windfall for the Cedar Valley,” WCF
  Courier.com (December 20, 2008)
• Bristol Virginia Utilities fiber network is revitalizing SW Virginia -- attracting
  hundreds of new high-paying jobs (November 2006)
• News Blaze, “Largest NuComm International to Locate in [Lafayette] Louisiana”
  (August 2006)
• Kathy Gray, “Port deal with Google to create jobs,” The Dalles Chronicle
  (February 2005)
• CISCO, “Optical Ring Safeguards City Power Utility and Local Jobs [in Auburn,
  Indiana]” (2006)

Reports, Articles, and Other Useful Materials

• Reed Hundt, "A broadband solution to fiscal crises" (December 2012)
• ILSR, "Wilson's Greenlight Leads North Carolina in Fast Internet" (December 2012)
• ILSR, "Chanute's Gig: One Rural Kansas Community's Tradition of Innovation
  Led to a Gigabit and Ubiquitous Wireless Coverage" (October 2012)
• Jim Baller, "The Killer App: Economic Development and Job Creation," FTTH
  Council Annual Conference, Dallas, TX (September 25, 2012)
• FTTH Council America:  "Toolkit for Communities: Getting to a Gigabit"
  (September 2012)
• SNG, "No Field of Dreams: Eliminating the Waiting Game and Driving Network
  Uptake" (August 2012)
• Intelligent Communities Forum, "Innovation and Employment in the Intelligent
  Community" (July 2012)
• Testimony of Assistant Secretary Larry Strickling, “Digital Divide: Expanding
  Broadband Access to Small Businesses” (July 18, 2012)
• CTC Technology and Energy, “Excerpt: Broadband for Economic Development,”
  Broadband in Allegany County: Status, Opportunities, and Strategies (July 2012)
• Blair Levin, "Upgrading America and Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage
  and a Psychology of Bandwidth Abundance To Drive High-Performance Know-
  ledge Exchange" (June 2012)
  
• BBC Staff. “Primer: What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community,”
  Broadband Communities Magazine (May 2012)
• David Salway, "Broadband as an Economic Driver: What Are the Economic Benefits
  of Broadband?" (May 2012)
• James Lardner, “Wave of the future?” Remapping Debate (undated)
• Kenneth Demlow, “Proving the Link Between Broadband and Economic Develop-
  ment,” Broadband Communities Magazine (March-April 2012)
• Tara Bozick, “Fiber Critical For Growth in Dan River Region,” GoDanRiver
  (Feb.19, 2012)
• Timothy J. Bartik, “What Works in Job Creation and Economic Development,”
  Upjohn Institute (2011)
• Darrell West (Moderator), “Wireless Broadband and Economic Growth,” Brookings
  Institution (October 2011)
• David Russell, “Early FTTH deployments drive growth – but can we prove it?” FTTH
  Conference (September 2011)
• Matt McQuade, “The Importance of Broadband To Economic Development,” Site
  Selection Magazine (September 2011)
• Howard Baldwin, “Stimulating Economic Growth with Broadband,” CISCO
  (August 30, 2011)
• Columbia Telecommunications Corporation, “The Impact of Broadband Speed and
  Price on Small Business” (November 2010)
• Robert Kenny and Charles Kenny, “Superfast: Is it Really Worth the Subsidy?”
  (November 2010)
• Christopher McGowan, “Broadband Among Keys For Economic Expansion,”
  Site Selection Magazine (September 2010)
• European Commission: "A Digital Agenda For Europe" (May 2010)
• Federal Communications Commission, “National Broadband Plan: Connecting
  America: Broadband & Economic Opportunity” (March 2010) 
• NATOA Comments to FCC on Community Broadband and Economic Development
  (December 2009)
• Nina Czernich, Oliver Falck, Tobias Kretschmer, Ludger Woessmann, “Broadband
  Infrastructure and Economic Growth,” CESifo Working Paper No. 2861 (December
  2009)
• FTTH Council: "Municipal Fiber to the Home Deployments: Next Generation Broad-
  band as a Municipal Utility" (updated October 2009)
• The Vault, “Casting Call For Disney’s Secretariat – Sunday in [Lafayette] Louisiana”
  (September 2009)
• Graham Richard, “Fiber Broadband Networks: The 21st Century Crossroads,”
  Broadband Properties Magazine (April 2009)
• Masha Zager, ”’Broadband Access is vital for Economic growth and social coherence,
  ’” Broadband Properties Magazine (April 2009)
• Masha Zager, “Fiber Connections Boost Business Productivity,” Broadband Properties
  Magazine (March 2009)
• Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel Castro, Robert Ezell, “The Digital Road to Recovery: A
  Stimulus Plan to Create Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize America”  Information
  Technology and Innovation Foundation (January 2009)
• Communications Workers of America, "Broadband Investment Creates Jobs"
  (December 2008)
• Ivan Seidenberg, “Ultra-Broadband’s Economic Bounty,” Broadband Properties Magazine
  (December 2008)
• Jim Baller and Casey Lide, “Bigger Vision, Bolder Action, Brighter Future: Capturing the
  Promise of Broadband For North Carolina and America" (June 2008)
• FMEA White Paper - "The Case for Municipal Broadband” (2005)
• Jeffrey Lee, “Why towns have built their own broadband,” Daily Herald (October 2005)
• John W. McCurry, “Broadband: The Next Utility,” Site Selection Magazine (September
  2002)
• Ron Starner, “Wired Cities,” Site Selection Magazine (January 2001)

Economic Development Programs and Workshops

• Broadband Communities Regional Econ Development Program in Danville, VA
  (November 2012)
• Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas, TX (April 2012)  Video Archive
• Broadband Communities Summit in Dallas, TX (April 2011)  Video Archive