Research: Economic impact of broadband stimulus

In Drs. Katz’ and Suter’s research paper on the Broadband Stimulus Plan, they investigate the potential jobs that could be produced using funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The paper does take in consideration jobs generated by grant monies and jobs created by network deployment.

The study concludes that:

* Network infrastructure construction could produce 128,000 jobs (32,000/year) over a four year period.
* Estimated cost/job is $50,000.
* The impact of “network externalities” may produce 0 to 270,000 jobs over four years (or roughly 67,500 jobs/year)...