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The supply and demand for residential broadband access.

• Broadband: Bringing Home the Bits is an NRC report focusing on policy, applications, and technologies for residential broadband (also available in HTML).
• Federal Communications Commision (FCC) Homepage for Broadband activities Supporting documents include FCC studies on availability of high-speed and broadband access, as well as related policy initiatives and rule-making.

The economic value of ubiquitous broadband access.

• The $500 Billion Opportunity: The Potential Economic Benefit of Widespread Diffusion of Broadband Internet Access A 2001 Brookings Institute study concluding that universal broadband would provide $500B annual benefit to the U.S. economy.
• TechNet CEOs Call for National Broadband Policy TechNet proposes its vision of 100x100.
• A National Imperative: Universal Availability of Broadband by 2010 A more detailed case for the economic impact of ubiquitous broadband access.