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Telecom Statistics

Health Care

Bring broadband-enabled medical monitoring to a hospital and what happens?  27% decline in hospital mortality and 13% less time in the hospital.
- Critical Care Medicine as cited in “Technology Vital to Improving Healthcare,” The Columbian, 1/8/2008

If all doctors and hospitals participating in Medicare used health IT, including electronic medical records, the federal government could save $34 billion over 10 years, by reducing medical errors and avoiding unnecessary tests and procedures.
-Congressional Budget Office.  “Budget Office Sees Hurdles in Financing Health Plans,” New York Times, 12/18/2008

Environment

Broadband can reduce greenhouse gases by 1 billion tons in 10 years—the equivalent of 11% of annual U.S. oil import.
- “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” Joseph P. Fuhr and Steven B. Pociask, American Consumer Institute, 10/31/07 

If 10% of airline travel could be replaced by teleconferencing over the next 10 years, we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 200 million tons, the equivalent of taking 28 million cars off the road.
- “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits, Joseph Fuhr and Steven Pociask, American Consumer Institute, 10/31/07

E-commerce centers have about 1/3 smaller carbon footprint than a brick and mortar store.  And, the largest cost of traditional shopping is the consumer driving their car to the store.
- Carnegie Mellon Green Design Institute as cited in “The Green Side of Online Shopping,” Wall Street Journal, 3/3/09

Broadband-enabled SmartGrid technology may reduce up to 30% of electricity consumption.
- Making Every Electron Count: The Rise of the SmartGrid, Deloitte Technology Predictions 2009

Economy

The broadband/IT sectors created nearly half of all new American jobs in 2008.
- The Telecom Sector and the Economy, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Empiris, 9/2008

The converging broadband sectors of telecom, media and IT lead U.S. GDP growth, adding nearly $900 billion annually and expanding at a rate that is two to five times faster than the overall U.S. economy.  IT-related sectors will remain the fastest-growing areas of our economy over the next 10 years.
- U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis, USTelecom Analysis

Over $1 in every $5 in private capital invested in the U.S. economy in 2008 went into communications and information technology—over $455 billion.
- U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Economic Analysis 

U.S. investment in broadband and related information technology has driven 1/3 or more of the productivity growth of this decade.  The ongoing productivity impact on GDP growth could exceed $200 billion annually.
- USTelecom Analysis

Over the past two years, the nation’s nearly 1,400 facilities-based broadband service providers invested approximately $120 billion in modern communications networks.  This investment exceeds annual federal investment in all U.S. transportation infrastructure.
- The Telecom Sector and the Economy, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Empiris, 9/2008

Over the past two years, private sector broadband investment was more than twice the U.S. government’s annual investment in building the nation’s interstate highway system and putting a man on the moon—combined and adjusted for inflation.
- USTelecom Analysis

The Consumer Price Index is up 18% since 2000; telecom prices are down 6%.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics as cited in The Telecom Sector and the Economy, Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Empiris, 9/2008

Broadband Competition Data

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High Speed Lines (at least 200kbps in one direction) (January 2009)

Voice

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