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Broadband BriefNo. 3 Published: November 2013 Abstract Building on previous work examining broadband availability across different geographies bypopulation, this report examines broadband availability by job location. As inBroadbandAvailability, Beyond the Rural/Urban Divide,this report divides the UnitedStates into fivecategories based on degree of urbanization. Rather than examining broadband and generalpopulation levels, however, this report assesses the impact of broadband availability in theworkplace. Virtually all jobs have access to very basic broadband speeds. However, jobslocated in more rural communities have less access to high-speed broadband than more urbancommunities, for both upload and download speeds, and the gaps in availability generally aregreater at higher speeds. This brief alsoexamines two industries–manufacturing and information. Manufacturing jobs,which are relatively concentrated in more rural communities, have less access to higher speedbroadband than information jobs, which are concentrated in more urbanized communities. Media Inquiries:(202) 482-7002press@ntia.doc.gov Technical Inquiries:(202) 482-3523sbdd@ntia.doc.gov Authors: David Beede is a Research Economist in the Office of the Chief Economist of the U.S. Department ofCommerce’s Economics and Statistics Administration. Anne Neville is the Director of the State Broadband Initiative at the National Telecommunications andInformation Administration. U.S. Department of CommerceNational Telecommunications and Information Administration1401 Constitution Ave., NWWashington, DC 20230www.ntia.doc.gov U.S. Department of CommerceEconomics and Statistics Administration1401 Constitution Ave., NWWashington, DC 20230www.esa.doc.gov About theBroadband BriefsSeries This report on the availability of broadband, authored by the National Telecommunications andInformation Administration (NTIA) and the Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA), is the thirdreport in the Broadband Brief series and uses publicly available data collected by the U.S. Department ofCommerce (Department) to examine broadband availability in greater detail. The Department publisheskeyeconomic and demographic data that support effective decision-making by policymakers,businesses, and the American public. Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is critical toeconomic growth, and the Department plays a leading role in this area by overseeing programs thatexpand broadband access and adoption and also measure current broadband availability and adoptionacross the country. The Department makes data available from its broadband-related programs—including the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP), the State Broadband Initiative (SBI),andthe Current Population Survey(CPS)Computer and Internet Use Supplement—for use byresearchers and the public to conduct economic, financial, demographic, and other studies. In addition,the Department conducts its own research and analysis to further examine the availability of broadbandand the factors associated with increased broadband deployment. This report uses data from the June 30, 2011 and June 30, 2012 SBI datasets,the Census Bureau’s 2010Decennial Census Summary Files, and the 2010 Longitudinal Employer-Household Origin-DestinationEmployment Statistics (LODES) dataset to analyze broadband availability by job location. NTIA, incollaboration with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and in partnership with the 50states, five territories and the District of Columbia, updates the SBI data and publishes theNationalBroadband Map(NBM) twice a year. Each state, or its designee, collects broadband data by census blockor road segment. More information about data collection, verification, and publication is available in theAboutsection of the NBM. All data are publicly available in theAnalyze,DeveloperorData Downloadsections of the NBM and all previous datasets are also available onNTIA’s website. The description ofhow NTIA and the FCC process these data is available on theTechnical Overviewsection of the website. Introduction Businesses increasinglyneed access to faster download and upload speeds to compete in today’s digitaleconomy, and fast broadband speeds also open the opportunity for companies to hire workersindependentof location.Business establishments located in areas with significant high-speedbroadband availability have opportunities to leverage the benefits of broadband in ways that businesseslocated in unserved or underserved areas do not.1Additionally, all else being equal, businesses locatedin areas with less high-speed broadband availability may be disadvantaged compared to their better-served competitors. These factors may also influence where a company expands its operations, orwhere it moves to initially.2 Following the methodology ofBroadband Brief No. 2, Broadband Availability, Beyond the Rural/UrbanDivide, this brief divides the United States into five categories based on their d