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Portable Fiber Optic Cable Placement
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NTIA contracted with ASR Analytics
to provide an independent assessment
of the social and economic impacts of
BTOP. ASR Analytics’ final report sum-
marizes and synthesizes the findings of
42 separate case study reports, two in-
terim reports, and a short-term economic
impacts report. In conducting its review,
ASR conducted 42 site visits with 27 dif-
ferent BTOP grantees between July 2011
and November 2013.
Key findings of ASR’s final report
include:
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On average, in only two years, BTOP
grant communities experienced an
estimated 2 percent greater growth in
broadband availability than non-grant
communities, which is estimated to
generate increased annual economic
activity of between $5.17 billion and
$21 billion.
s
The additional broadband infrastruc-
ture provided by BTOP could be
expected to create more than 22,000
long-term jobs and generate more than
$1 billion in additional household
income each year.
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Community anchor institutions, like
schools and libraries, served by BTOP
infrastructure grantees in the sample
experienced significantly increased
speeds and lower costs. As an exam-
ple, the median price paid by libraries
in the sample was $233 megabits-per-
second (mbps)/month before BTOP, at
a median speed of 3 mbps. As a result
of the grant, the median price dropped
to $15 mbps/month and median speed
increased to 20 mbps.
Under the BTOP program, NTIA
awarded 233 grants benefiting every
state, five territories, and the District of
Columbia, to build network infrastruc-
ture, establish public computer centers,
and develop digital literacy training to
expand broadband adoption.
To date, BTOP grantees have built or
upgraded more than 113,000 miles of
fiber and connected nearly 25,000 com-
munity anchor institutions. BTOP grant-
ees also have established or upgraded
3,000 public computer centers, delivered
more than four million training hours,
and helped roughly 735,000 households
sign up for broadband.