“…Depending on the extent to which governments are engaged in broadband deployment, one can roughly distinguish three types of government policies and regulatory strategies: soft-intervention strategies, medium-intervention strategies, and hard-intervention strategies (Cava-Ferreruela & AlabauMuñoz, 2006). Overall, evidence from empirical findings exhibits a certain disunity on the government's role in broadband development (Belloc, Nicita, & Rossi, 2012;Cava-Ferreruela & Alabau-Muñoz, 2006;Falch, 2007;Picot & Wernick, 2007). Some argue that, although technical and economic parameters play the primary roles in the development of broadband services, public policy involvement is still worthwhile because it provides a clear and significant stimulus to broadband penetration (Belloc et al, 2012;Falch, 2007).…”