My work email archive from a decade ago is hard to search, but when I sent a similar email, I got back a reference to a study of broadband in Japan (?) about early adopters in fiber-to-the-curb communities...

They essentially found that when you installed a network like this in a neighborhood, the economic growth in that neighborhood almost immediately changed trajectory (upward) relative to similar communities without these networks.

When I bought my house, one of my absolute requirements was that the house be in a UTOPIA city. If I were a business owner, I would have the same requirement.