The American Consumer Institute hosted an event on Capitol Hill today to release their latest study, “The Internet Ecosystem: Employment Impacts of National Broadband Policy.” The study offers a third path to addressing today’s economic challenges. Instead of looking to traditional fiscal and monetary solutions, the author, Dr. Larry Darby, suggests identifying the sectors, like technology, that are creating jobs and avoid adding additional regulatory burdens that might interfere with them.
Dr. Darby, along with co-authors Steve Posciask and Dr. Joseph Fuhr, demonstrates in the study the dramatic impact Net neutrality regulations would have on network investment. “And you don’t get jobs without investment,” Dr. Darby said. He urged the room of Hill staff to consider not only the past failures of other government-run Internet networks, but to think about the long term economic opportunities with companies that consistently reinvest their capital. Nowhere is this more relevant than in this most recent study where empirical data shows how much investment broadband providers commit to America’s communications infrastructure.
You can watch the event in its entirety below. Click here to download a copy of the report.
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February 16th, 2010 at 12:40 pm
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