Technology Infrastructure Committee (TIC) Supporting Documents
The TIC continues to hone its vision for the use of fiber-based technology in Findlay, Hancock County, and the region. This vision is in draft form and continues to be honed at each monthly meeting. The
TIC's fiber ring draft is available for review and comment. Please provide any comments or feedback to
lchild@aardvarkmedia.com.
Net Neutrality and its Impact on Jobs and Investment
The Advanced Communications Law & Policy Institute at New York Law School recently published a whitepaper on net neutrality and its impact on jobs and investment in the United States. The analyses in this paper indicate that the imposition of network neutrality rules could have devastating impacts between 2010 and 2015. In particular:
- A 10 percent decrease in investment by wireline and wireless broadband service providers, coupled with likely spillover effects, could result in the loss of 502,000 jobs across the entire ecosystem and would have a negative impact on U.S. GDP on the order of approximately $62 billion per year.
- A 20 percent decrease in investment by wireline and wireless broadband service providers, coupled with likely spillover effects, could result in the loss of 553,000 jobs across the entire ecosystem and nearly $72 billion in GDP losses per year.
- A 30 percent decrease in investment by wireline and wireless broadband service providers, coupled with likely spillover effects, could result in the loss of 604,000 jobs across the entire ecosystem and over $80 billion in GDP losses per year.
- Because the FCC’s network neutrality proposals could foreclose even larger investments than presumed in the paper’s baseline scenario, the number of jobs lost or foregone in the ecosystem could be even greater, stretching toward 700,000.
Download the full report here