Broadband link to U.S. jobs exaggerated: experts

A co-author of a widely cited forecast that nearly 300,000 U.S. jobs would be created for every percentage point rise in high-speed Internet use said on Friday these and similar estimates are “a gross overestimate.”

“There is a great deal of overstatement in most of these studies,” said Robert Crandall, a Brookings Institution economist and co-author of the frequently-cited paper with that estimate.

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