Becker and fellow economists Dennis Carlton and Hal Sidler found that "Between mid-2002 and mid-2008, the number of high-speed broadband access lines in the United States grew from 16 million to nearly 133 million, and the number of residential broadband lines grew from 14 million to nearly 80 million.
」 貝克及其經濟學同事Dennis Carlton與Hal Sidler發現，「2002年至2008年，美國的高速寬頻接取線路從1,600萬條成長至近1億3,300萬條，而家庭寬頻線路亦從1,400萬條成長至近8,000萬條。