Geodesic nets on the Euclidean plane and closed geodesic nets on Euclidean surfaces

We prove that if $M$ is a closed Riemannian surface of diameter $d$ and area $v$ with sectional curvature in the $[-1,1]$ interval, then a closed geodesic net of length $l$ has at most $f(l,d,v)$ branch points, where $f(l,d,v)=(400\bar{l})^{(180\bar{l})^4}$ for $\bar{l}= \max\{l, \frac{\exp(d)}{\min