Q2. What future works have the authors mentioned in the paper "The broadband digital divide and the economic benefits of mobile broadband for rural areas" ?
40 Regardless, some federal effort to promote broadband is aimed directly at mobility: freeing up additional wireless spectrum for broadband use, allocation of $ 350 million to the Mobility and Tribal Mobility Funds to extend access along rural roadways, and the abovementioned tower order. 41 The expansion of mobile broadband in the US will continue to have important economic and social benefits. Similarly, rural areas in the US can benefit from mobile broadband ’ s cost advantages in some areas with difficult terrain and low-income areas can benefit from mobile broadband not requiring ownership of a computer in the household. The evidence suggests that as mobile and other forms of broadband diffuse in rural areas, they will stimulate local economic growth, although estimates vary concerning the magnitude of the causal impact.
Q3. How many mobile broadband providers would it take to increase from two to three?
An elasticity of 0.07 implies that it would take about an eight-fold increase in population density for the number of mobile broadband providers to increase from two to three, for example.
Q4. How does the author isolate the one-way impact of mobile infrastructure and its externalities on GDP?
The authors isolate the one-way impact of mobile infrastructure and its externalities on GDP by controlling for increased demand for mobile services due to higher economic output.
Q5. What are the factors that determine the value of broadband in rural areas?
If the authors find that rural location predicts household broadband usage even after controlling for characteristics such as income, education levels, and race, then rural-specific factors such as price, availability, or differing perceived value of broadband in rural areas would appear to be important.
Q6. How many households are less likely to use broadband?
For both fixed and mobile broadband, nonmetro low-income households are only about 75% as likely as metropolitan low-income households to use broadband.
Q7. What are some of the specific personal economic benefits of broadband for local areas?
some of the specific personal economic benefits of broadband for local areas are also discussed, including making telemedicine possible and enhancing distance-learning opportunities.
Q8. What are the lessons from the literature examining the role that mobile broadband can play in the economic?
To the extent that rural areas in the US lag urban areas in the development of ICT infrastructure,some of the lessons from the literature examining the role that mobile broadband can play in the economic growth of developing nations are relevant.
Q9. What is the definition of a non-metropolitan household in the CPS data?
A household is designated as non-metropolitan in the CPS data is it is not located in a Core Based Statistical Area (CBSA), a contiguous region based around an urban center.
Q10. What is the effect of the inclusion of the interaction term for density and income on the coefficient estimate?
The inclusion of the interaction term for density and income does not reverse the positive sign of the coefficient estimate for rural location in Poisson Estimations 1 and 2.rather is actually driven by differences in the sociodemographic characteristics of urban and rural dwellers.