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Telecom Statistics

Health Care

Health IT can prevent 200,000 adverse drug effects each year.
- “Health Information Technology: Can HIT Lower Costs and Improve Quality?” RAND Corporation

2005 Health Care Savings to Seniors? $800 Billion
-“Great Expectations: Potential Economic Benefits To The Nation From Accelerated Broadband Deployment To Older Americans And Americans With Disabilities,” Robert E. Litan for New Millennium Research

Environment

Telecommuters gain the equivalent of four extra weeks of vacation.
- Sage Research 

Broadband can reduce greenhouse gases by 1 billion tons in 10 years.
- “Broadband Services: Economic and Environmental Benefits,” Joseph P. Fuhr and Steven B. Pociask, American Consumer Institute, 10/31/07 

US telecommuters will save 840 million gallons of gas this year.
Telecommuters save enough electricity to power 1 million US homes.
- “The Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Impact of Telecommuting and e-Commerce,” Tiax for Consumer Electronics Association, 7/2007

Economy

Telecoms will invest $70 billion in broadband infrastructure this year.
- “Spending Wave Buoys Makers of Network Gear,” Wall Street Journal, 2/14/2007

US broadband adoption increased 55% (from June 2006 - June 2007).
Nearly 66 million Americans now have broadband in the home.
There are 1,360 broadband service providers in the US today.
- FCC, 03/2008

Bandwidth demand is expected to increase 300-500% per year.
- “Tech Execs See Convergence Lifting Broadband Demand,” Baseline, 6/21/2007

Broadband Competition Data

Download Wireline Broadband Pricing Document 

High Speed Lines (at least 200kbps in one direction) (March 2008)

Voice

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