<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Interesting read....<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>Begin forwarded message:<br></div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br></span></div></blockquote><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>Broadband Beats Mobile Phones in Boosting GDP</span><br><span></span><br><span>Mobile phones are a ticket out of poverty for millions. No argument there. But check out this global ICT study by Christine Zhen-Wei Qiang, an economist at the World Bank for a surprising comparison with broadband Internet.</span><br><span></span><br><span>She found that for every 10 percentage points increase in broadband penetration, there is an incremental increase in economic growth of 1.3 percentage points. This compares to the 0.8 percent increase for mobile phones. I would not have expected such a great differential - almost a 2x greater GDP boost via broadband than mobiles.</span><br><span></span><br><span><a href="http://ow.ly/1gn96">http://ow.ly/1gn96</a></span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>Marco Zennaro</span><br><span>Aeronomy and Radiopropagation Laboratory</span><br><span>the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics</span><br><span>Strada Costiera 11</span><br><span>34014 Trieste</span><br><span>Italy</span><br><span></span><br><span>Telephone: +39 040 2240 406</span><br><span>E-mail: <a href="mailto:mzennaro@ictp.it"><a href="mailto:mzennaro@ictp.it">mzennaro@ictp.it</a></a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>