Economic Effects of Broadband Infrastructure Deployment And Tax Incentives For Broadband Deployment
This study, prepared for the FTTH Council by the international consulting firm Navigant Economics, calculated the capital investment required to expand current generation broadband to all U.S. homes, as well as to also extend competitive next-generation networks – those delivering connectivity of at least 50 megabits per second downstream and 20 mbps upstream – to 80 percent of the country by 2015. It concluded that achieving both these objectives would require $77 billion in additional capital expenditure and result in an annual increase of 290,000 jobs and $236 billion in additional GDP over the five year deployment period.