From the article: "Now there is evidence that improving mobile Internet access
helps economies too. A recent study
examined the effect of faster 3G wireless data connections replacing slower 2G
ones. The study by the GSM Association mobile trade group, Deloitte and Cisco,
looked at 96 developed and developing markets from 2008 to 2011. When a market
experienced a 10% shift from 2G to 3G, GDP per capita growth increased by an
average of 0.15 percentage points. A separate look into 14 countries between
2005 to 2010 found that a doubling of mobile data use led to an increase of 0.5
percentage points in per capita growth." Read more
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