Joanne Hovis and Marc Schulhof, Jim Baller and Ashley Stelfox, “The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships: A Business Strategy and Legal Guide,” The Benton Foundation (Feb 2016)

Hovis and Schulhof, Baller and Stelfox, The Emerging World of Broadband Public-Private Partnerships: A Business Strategy and Legal Guide (2-16-16)

Remarks of Assistant Secretary Strickling at the Internet Governance Forum USA

Remarks of Lawrence E. Strickling, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information, at the The U.S. Internet Governance Forum.  

A discussion of the multistakeholder process as a tool for addressing the key issues that exist in the Internet policy space and to reaffirm our strong support for the model in the work we do.  Delivered on July 16, 2015.

US Broadband Coalition Website

The US Broadband Coalition is a large and diverse coalition of entities that seeks to develop consensus on as many of the components of a national broadband plan as possible. On December 8, 2008, at an event on Capitol Hill, the Coalition issued an unprecedented Call to Action to President-elect Barak Obama and Congress to develop a comprehensive national broadband plan. The Call to Action included a framework for such a plan as well as a commitment by the members of the Coalition to continue to work together to explore the relevant issues in detail. For this purpose, the Coalition formed six working groups: Needs and Opportunities, Goals, Metrics, Availability, Adoption and Use, and Implementation.

International Perspectives on the US National Broadband Plan

Video detailing the Broadband Breakfast Club. The site hosting the video describes the event as including “key industry officials and was moderated by Lynn Stanton, Senior Editor, TR Reports.” Any relation of this event to the acclaimed John Hughes coming of age film is tenuous at best.

Harvard’s Berkman Center: Broadband policy from around the world

Fostering the development of a ubiquitously networked society, connected over high-capacity networks, is a widely shared goal among both developed and developing countries. High capacity networks are seen as strategic infrastructure, intended to contribute to high and sustainable economic growth and to core aspects of human development.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Section 6001(k)

Section of Reinvestment Act wherein “) Not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this section, the Commission shall submit to the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, a report containing a national broadband plan.”

Free Press: “Dismantling Digital Regulation

On a cold February morning 13 years ago, President Bill Clinton made history by signing the  Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law. It was the first signing at the Library of Congress and the first to be streamed live over the Internet. This symbolism was intended to capture the legislation’s promise of bringing  the information revolution to the doorstep of every American. As President Clinton signed a bill he described as “truly revolutionary” and that would “protect consumers against monopolies,” he spoke of the future the law would bring. “Soon, working parents will be able to check up on their children in class via computer,” he said. “On a rainy Saturday night, you’ll be able to order up every movie ever produced or every symphony ever
created in a minute’s time.”

Americans are still waiting on the promise of this digital revolution.

Congressional Research Service: The Evolving Broadband Infrastructure

Over the past decade, the telecommunications sector has undergone a vast transformation fueled by rapid technological growth and subsequent evolution of the marketplace. Much of the U.S. policy debate over the evolving telecommunications infrastructure is framed within the context of  a “national broadband policy.”

Congressional Research Service: What’s Different About Broadband?

Broadband network deployment projects represent large scale, long term investments that affect the overall productivity of economic activity in the geographic areas in which they are built, and thus fit the conventional definition of infrastructure. But they also have several characteristics that distinguish them from traditional infrastructure projects. These unique characteristics may dictate that government programs in support of broadband deployment be structured differently than conventional infrastructure programs.