Professor Lewis has graciously provided this listing of very useful links.

2011 All Aboard? Tackling Broadband Adoption – The Broadband Adoption Summit. Rick Schadelbauer,  NTCA, http://www.ntca.org/images/stories/Documents/Press_Center/2011_Releases/Broadband_Adoption_040611FINAL.pdf

2010 Advancing Broadband: A Foundation for Strong Communities (A report on USDA BIP program awards), January 2011 http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/supportdocuments/RBB_report_whole-v4ForWeb.pdf

The All-Internet Household, EduCause, 2 page visual showing the connected household, http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/EPO0808.pdf

2010 “Breaking the Broadband Monopoly”, The New Rules Project, http://www.newrules.org/information/publications/breaking-broadband-monopoly

2010 “Broadband Adoption and Use in America: OBI Working Paper Series No. 1, John B. Horrigan, FCC, http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/FCCSurvey.pdf

2010 “Broadband’s Impact on Economic Development: The Real Deal”, IEDC, http://images.tmcnet.com/online-communities/dark-fiber/press/Successful-snapshot-09-10.pdf

2011 “Broadband Initiatives Program Awards Report”, USDA, http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/supportdocuments/RBB_report_whole-v4ForWeb.pdf

2009 “Broadband Internet's Value for Rural America”, USDA, http://www.link.wisconsin.gov/lwi/link.aspx?URL=http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/err78/&Title=Report:%20Broadband%20Internet%27s%20Value%20for%20Rural%20America

2011 Broadband Statistics Report: Broadband Availability in Urban vs. Rural Areas, US Dept. of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, A national broadband mapping project that provides a comparison of rural and urban broadband availability. http://www.broadbandmap.gov/download/reports/national-broadband-map-broadband-availability-in-rural-vs-urban-areas.pdf

2010 Community Broadband Network Map, http://www.muninetworks.org/communitymap

2009 Community Broadband Preemption Map, http://www.muninetworks.org/content/community-broadband-preemption-map

2010 “Community Broadband Snapshot Report™: Broadband’s Impact on Economic Development: The Real Deal”, Craig Settles, Successful.com, http://successful.com/msp/snapshot-09-10.pdf

2011 Digital Nation: Expanding Internet Usage, US Dept. of Commerce, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, A report previewing data collected through the Internet Usage Survey of 54,000 households, commissioned by NTIA and conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau in October 2010. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/2011/NTIA_Internet_Use_Report_February_2011.pdf

2010 “The Economic Impact of Digital Exclusion”, The Digital Impact Group and EconConsult Corporation, http://www.digitalimpactgroup.org/costofexclusion.pdf

2010 “E-Rate Program and Broadband Usage Survey: Report”, Federal Communications Commission, http://wire.wiscnet.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/fccreport.pdf

2009 “E-Readiness Rankings 2009 – The usage imperative”, The Economist, http://graphics.eiu.com/pdf/E-readiness%20rankings.pdf

2010, Exploring the Digital Nation: Home Broadband Internet Adoption in the United States, NTIA, http://www.link.wisconsin.gov/lwi/link.aspx?URL=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/reports/2010/ESA_NTIA_US_Broadband_Adoption_Report_11082010.pdf&Title=NTIA%20Report%2011-10

2010 “Home Broadband 2010”, Pew Internet and American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Home-Broadband-2010.aspx

2010 “The Impact of Broadband Speed and Price on Small Business” SBA, http://www.sba.gov/content/impact-broadband-speed-and-price-small-business-1

2010 “An International Look at High-Speed Broadband”, Brookings, http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2010/0223_broadband_west/0223_broadband_west.pdf

2010 Internet Access Services: Status as of June 30, 2010, FCC, http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0321/DOC-305296A1.pdf

 

2010 “Local Telephone Competition: Status as of June 30, 2010”, FCC, http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0321/DOC-305297A1.pdf

 

2010 “National Broadband Plan Reflects the Experiences of Leading Countries, but

Implementation Will Be Challenging”, GAO, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-825

 

2010 “Opportunity for All How the American Public Benefits from Internet Access at U.S. Libraries, http://impact.ischool.washington.edu/documents/OPP4ALL_FinalReport.pdf

 

2011 “Publicly Owned Broadband Networks”, The New Rules Project, http://www.newrules.org/information/publications/publicly-owned-broadband-networks-averting-looming-broadband-monopoly

 

2010 “Small Business Technology Survey”, National Small Business Association (NSBA), http://www.nsba.biz/docs/nsba_2010_technology_survey.pdf

 

2010 “State of the Internet” Q3. Each quarter, Akamai publishes a quarterly "State of the Internet" report. This report includes data gathered across Akamai's global server network about attack traffic, average & maximum connection speeds, Internet penetration and broadband adoption, and mobile usage, as well as trends seen in this data over time. The report can be downloaded after a free registration process: http://www.akamai.com/stateoftheinternet/

 

2010 “Telecommunications” National Broadband Plan Reflects the Experiences of Leading Countries, but Implementation will be Challenging”, GAO, http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-825

 

Web resource (not a written report):

NTIA’s State Broadband Data and Development (SBDD) Program - (click on the “recipient” for your state and then scroll down to the bottom for a link to “broadband map” in the section titled, “State Broadband Links”). http://www2.ntia.doc.gov/SBDD

 

Web resource (not a written report):

Organization for Economic Co-operation and Develoment - Broadband Portal - The OECD broadband portal provides access to a range of broadband-related statistics gathered by the OECD. http://www.oecd.org/sti/ict/broadband

 

2004 “Delivering Broad Band over Power Lines: What You Should Know”, http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=1307030&userType=inst – This conference paper provides an excellent overview of the opportunities and challenges facing broad deployment of broadband over power lines.

To Access additional materials, please visit the “Connecting Communities” curriculum that is part of the National e-Commerce Extension Initiative. See:

http://srdc.msstate.edu/ecommerce/curricula/connecting_communities/index.html