Broadband connectivity is regarded as generally having a positive macroeconomic impact, but we lack evidence as to how broadband affects key economic activity metrics, such as firm creation, at the local level. This analysis models the impacts of broadband Next Generation Access (NGA) on new...

The social rate of return of mobile broadband infrastructure is an important indicator for informing the allocation of public and private capital to the telecommunications sector, yet no estimates are currently available in the literature. The consensus in the literature is that to estimate the...

In recognition of the transformative opportunities that broadband connectivity presents, the United Nations Broadband Commission has committed the international community to accelerate universal access across the developing world. However, the cost of meeting this objective, and the feasibility...

A new generation of cellular technology has been deployed every decade since the 1980s. We are presently amid the global commercial deployment by Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) of the fifth generation (5G) of cellular technology; and concurrently, a flurry of research is engaged in designing...