Telecom Study: Radio Project Will Create 100K Jobs | Dispatch ...

Not only would a national?public safety radio network provide?communications for first responders, constructing and maintaining it would create 100,000 badly-needed jobs, two economists hired by a telecommunications group have reported. According to the study commissioned by the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the federal government?s proposed $10.7 billion radio network would also produce estimated ?spillover benefits? of between $4 billion and $8 billion per year. Authors Robert Shapiro and Aparna Mathur released the study this week, outlining how much the?information and communications technologies (ICT) industry contributes to the American economy. Specifically, the authors examined how ICT affects economic growth, worker productivity, job and prosperity. According to the study, ICT overall accounted for 3.5 million jobs during 2009, with an average compensation of $107,229, which is 80% higher than the average for all full-time workers. Looking at the proposed?public safety radio network,?the authors said about $8 billion would initially be spent on wages and salaries for 107,000 workers. Another $3 billion would be spent on capital investments supporting another 20,000 jobs. Interestingly, the authors said a new radio network would increase police?and fire productivity by ?at least 1 percentage point per year,? creating efficiency savings of $2 billion per year. Indirect benefits from the new network could total $2 billion to $6 billion a year, the study found.?Download (pdf) the summary of the author?s findings here, and read a statement from the?Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) after the break.

Press release state of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO)

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Creation Of Public Safety Network To Lead To 100,000 New Jobs

WASHINGTON, D.C. ? September 13, 2011 ? President Obama?s proposal to fund the development and initial deployment of a public safety nationwide wireless broadband network would lead to the creation of an estimated 100,000 new jobs, according to a recently-released report, APCO International announced today.

The study titled, ?The Contributions of Information and Communications Technologies to American Growth, Productivity, Jobs and Prosperity? by economists Robert J. Shapiro and Aparna Mathur details how the jobs will be created in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) based on the President?s proposal to invest $10.7 billion in a Public Safety Broadband Network (PSBN). The 26-page report analyzes the current use of labor and capital by ICT companies and prevailing wages and concludes that nearly $8 billion of the initial funding of the PSBN would go to salaries, sufficient to produce 74,000 new ICT jobs. In addition, the remaining, nearly $3 billion in new capital investments would support some 20,000 additional jobs.

?At a time when the economic outlook and job prospects in our nation are most challenging, this study provides one more critical reason for Congress to swiftly enact S.911 and allocate the D block spectrum to public safety to create a reliable, interoperable public safety broadband network,? said APCO International?s President Gregg Riddle. ?With the 10-year remembrance of 9/11 this past week, and the continued calls for Congress to meet the 9/11 Commission?s outstanding recommendation, this report further underscores the immediate economic, as well as safety and security, need for this network, both to keep our nation safe during terrorist attacks, natural disasters and everyday emergencies, and to help spark the economy with new, positive job creation. Indeed, it begs the question: ?What exactly is Congress waiting for before they will act on this bipartisan legislation???

S.911 is just one of five bills that have been introduced since January 2011, which allocate the D block to public safety (the other bills are HR607, HR2482, S.28 and S.1040). All five bills address public safety?s top priorities ? allocating the D Block to public safety, providing $10-12 billion in funding to build out the broadband network, establishing the necessary independent governance to manage the build out, maintenance and operations of the network with sufficient state-local government and public safety representation, and offsetting the deficit by auctioning other spectrum bands. In addition to auctioning other spectrum bands, other cost savings could be seen from the creation of a PSBN. According to the study, the new network and its technologies could increase the productivity of police and fire agencies by at last 1 percentage point per year, producing direct efficiency savings of nearly $2 billion per year. The indirect benefits from a nationwide public safety network could total another $2 billion to $6 billion per-year. The Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) commissioned the report. To read the full study visit: http://www.tiaonline.org/. To read more about the creation of a Public Safety Broadband Network, visit www.psafirst.org.

Source: http://www.911dispatch.com/2011/09/telecom-study-radio-project-will-create-100k-jobs/

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