OECD Digital Economy Papers
The OECD Directorate for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) undertakes a wide range of activities to better understand how information and communication technologies (ICTs) contribute to sustainable economic growth and social well-being. The OECD Digital Economy Papers series covers a broad range of ICT-related issues and makes selected studies available to a wider readership. They include policy reports, which are officially declassified by an OECD Committee, and occasional working papers, which are meant to share early knowledge.
- ISSN: 20716826 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/20716826
Network Developments in Support of Innovation and User Needs
This report makes a case for investment in a competitive, open-access national fibre-to-the-home network rollout based on potential spillovers in four key sectors of the economy: electricity, health, transportation and education.
This research offers a new approach to evaluating the costs of building the most forward-looking
network possible by evaluating what short-term cost savings (benefits) would have to be achieved in other
key economic sectors to justify the investment. On average, a cost savings of between 0.5% and 1.5% in
each of the four sectors over ten years resulting directly from the new broadband network platform could
justify the cost of building a national point-to-point, fibre-to-the-home network.
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