A recent study performed by the American Consumer Institute outlined how network companies employ twice as many employees and invest twice as much, dollar for dollar, compared to non-network (edge) IT companies.  Click here for NextGenWeb’s coverage around the ACI study.

Gary Kim, Contributing Editor at TMCnet.com, has chimed in on this vantage point of the Net neutrality debate.  As was detailed in his recent article on TMC.net, there is a significant gap in the number of people employed between opponents and proponents of increased Internet regulation:

“If one adds up all the employees working at firms that have filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission that opposed ‘network neutrality,’ compared to the number of employees of firms that say they favor such rules, you would find that firms opposed to net neutrality directly employ 1,440,021 workers while supporters directly employ 148,936 workers.”

These numbers demonstrate that investments by network providers are a very significant factor in the Internet ecosystem. Investments underpin jobs and the policies in place over the last few years have helped stimulate major network investments, factors that should be considered in the current policy debate.

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