Study: ‘Broadband investment heads in wrong direction’
USTelecom’s seventh annual report on broadband investment numbers will be finalized soon, but our initial analysis strongly suggests that investment in 2016 continued to trend downward following the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) adoption of the 2015 Open Internet Order. Data compiled from internet service providers (ISPs) which usually represent between 90 to 95 percent of annual industry capital expenditures, suggests the dip in broadband investment we reported on in 2015 is more than a one-year phenomenon. In 2016, capital expenditures for these ISPs was $71 billion, down from $73 billion in 2015 and $74 billion in 2014, our current estimate shows. That’s $2.5 billion to $3 billion lower in 2016 than it...
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