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The estimated total impact of the $6.4 billion in network investment
– presumed to be enabled by the ARRA broadband provisions ranged from the pessimistic scenario of 126,800 to the optimistic scenario of 400,800 with a mid range estimate of 263,800 over four years.
An investment of $10 billion in broadband network infrastructure could stimulate new employment over time of as many as 268,500 jobs
– as a result of direct, indirect and induced effects attributable to externalities associated with what the authors called “innovation spillovers”.
Blistering wireless data growth means that it must be now measured in petabytes, with each unit representing a quadrillion bytes or about 100 times all the text contained in the 650 miles of bookshelves in the Library of Congress.
CTIA estimates more than 20 percent of households use only wireless for voice, and cellphone users make more than 290,000 calls daily to 911 and other emergency services.
According to a recent Deloitte survey, 53% of operators believed that the walled garden would disappear entirely from wireless networks by the end of 2012, and 74% said that the key to their businesses in the future was to embrace open application and content models.
Industry consensus that more spectrum is needed to meet future requirements.
Key issues of network requirements are availability of suitable networks, and identification of network requirements for each smart grid and smart transportation application.
As application use evolves and demand for high-speed services increases, only a small percentage of Americans may have access to a provider able to serve high-speed product markets.
After decades of new allocations, the spectrum pipeline is drying up, and it will take years for any new spectrum to reach the market.
It is the consumers in small and rural markets, even those who would otherwise not wish to use high congestion applications, who are the ultimate victims of the prohibition on network congestion management. These users pay the price for regulation when they are unable to obtain broadband services because those firms that could otherwise profitably offer service are no longer interested in their needs due to regulation.