Explores the impact of next generation broadband on business creation. Uses over 11 million crowdsourced broadband measurements.Higher broadband speeds are associated with increased growth in new businesses.Universal high-capacity broadband is an economically desirable policy

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...