[ii] Crandall, R. and Jackson.C (2001), “The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access,” mimeo, Criterion Economics, Washington, DC.
http://www.criterioneconomics.com /docs/Crandall_Jackson_500_Billion_Opportunity_July_2001.pdf

[iii] Pociask, S., “Building a Nationwide Broadband Network: Speeding Job Growth”, TeleNomic Research, LLC with support from the New Millennium Research
Council (NMRC), February 25, 2002.
http://www.newmillenniumresearch.org/ event-02-25-2002/jobspaper.pdf

[iv] Yankee Group (2001), “The Collaborative Commerce Value Statement: A $223 billion Cost Savings Opportunity Over Six Years,” Module B-to-B Commerce & Applications, Vol. 6, No. 6, Yankee Group, Boston, Mass., June 14, 2001.

[v] Varian, H., Litan, R., Elder, A., and Schulter, J., “The Net Impact Study:
The Projected Economic Benefits of the Internet in the United States, United Kingdom, France and Germany”,  (Jan.2002).
 http://netimpactstudy.com/Net-Impact_Study_Report.pdf

[vi] Centre for Economics and Business Research Ltd. (2003), “ The Economic Impact of a Competitive Market for Broadband”, prepared for the Broadband Industry Group in the United Kingdom.
http://www.bigfuture.org/ cebr%20Final%20Report.pdf

[vii] ACIL Tasman (2004), “Regional Economic Impacts of Broadband Adoption in Victoria”, prepared for Multimedia Victoria, August 2004.
http://www.mmv.vic.gov.au/ broadband/Economicbenefits

[viii] Lehr, W., Osorio, C., Gillett, S., and Sirbu, M, (2005) “Measuring Broadband’s Economic Impact”, paper presented at the 33rd Research Conference on Communication, Information, and Internet Policy (TPRC), Arlington, VA, and revised as of October 4, 2005. http://itc.mit.edu/itel/docs/2005/MeasuringBB_EconImpact.pdf

http://www.broadbanduk.org/news/news_pdfs/Sept%202004/ BSG_Phase_2_BB_Impact_BackgroundPaperSept04(1).pdf

[x] Singer, M. (2002), “The Economic and Social Benefits of Broadband”, Telecommunications Industry Association (US) for Question 20/2: Examination of access technologies for broadband communications, August 27, 2002.
http://www.tiaonline.org/policy/ broadband/TIA_Contribution_for_ITU-D_20-2_on_Broadband_8-27.pdf

[xi] ibid

[xii] Tanner, T. “Moving Beyond Wireless Broadband to Carrier Grade Infrastructure”, Presentation Slides.
http://www.wcai.com/pdf/2005/ 05presentations/Tanner_Todd.pdf

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

[xiv] OECD Broadband Statistics, June 2005.

http://www.oecd.org/document/16/0,2340,en_2649_ 37441_35526608_1_1_1_37441,00.html#Graphs2005

[xv] OECD Broadband Statistics, December 2004.

http://www.oecd.org/document/ 60/0,2340,en_2649_37441_2496764_1_1_1_37441,00.html

[xvi] CableLabs, Cable Modem/DOCSIS primer

http://www.cablemodem.com/primer/

[xvii]  Vos, E.,” MuniWireless, Second Anniversary Report”, July 2005.
http://www.baller.com/pdfs/ Muniwireless_7-05.pdf

[xxii] Lehr, W., Sirbu, M., and Gillett, S. (2004), “Broadband Open Access: Lessons from Municipal Network Case Studies”, September 2004.
http://itc.mit.edu/itel/docs/2004/ Broadband_Open_Access.pdf

[xxiii]  The Allen Consulting Group (2003),  “True Broadband, Exploring the Economic Impacts”, study conducted for Ericsson, September 2003.
http://www.ericsson.com. au/broadband/true_broadband.asp

[xxv] Information on state legislation is provided on Civitum website.

http://www.civitium.com/states.shtml

[xxvi] Ó Siochrú, S. and Girard, B.,”Community Based Networks and Innovative Technologies”, UNDP, 2005

http://propoor-ict.comunica.org/content/pdfs /00_UNDP_Report_p.1-58.pdf