{"id":500,"date":"2025-08-30T07:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/?p=500"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T11:24:32","slug":"economic-gains-of-expanding-broadband-access-in-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/2025\/08\/30\/economic-gains-of-expanding-broadband-access-in-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Gains of Expanding Broadband Access in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-30-072324.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-502 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/files\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-30-072324-232x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Here is a copy in published format of my co-authored paper estimating the gains of broadband expansion. This paper develops the willingness-to-pay (WTP) methodology that has been cited and used in subsequent research.<\/p>\n<p>Citation: Lopez, Edward J., &amp; Kravtin, Patricia M. (2021). &#8220;Utility pole policy: A cost-effective prescription for achieving full broadband access in North Carolina.&#8221; North Carolina Cable Telecommunications Association.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/files\/2025\/08\/Lopez-and-Kravtin-August-2021-NCCTA-Report.pdf\">Lopez and Kravtin August 2021 &#8211; NCCTA Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a copy in published format of my co-authored paper estimating the gains of broadband expansion. This paper develops the willingness-to-pay (WTP) methodology that has been cited and used in subsequent research. Citation: Lopez, Edward J., &amp; Kravtin, Patricia M. (2021). &#8220;Utility pole policy: A cost-effective prescription for achieving full broadband access in North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.wcu.edu\/ejlopez\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}