With the June launch of its US Ignite initiative, the White House has taken a bold step to stimulate creation of a new wave of services and applications that leverage advanced broadband networks running up to 100 times faster than today’s Internet. A new public-private partnership with almost 100 partners to date, US Ignite will build on the National Science Foundation’s GENI network to interconnect communities with advanced fiber networks to facilitate sharing of knowledge, experiences, and applications across multiple disciplines. The program is poised to match developers of advanced medical, public safety, energy, and other bandwidth-rich applications in these communities with experts who can help accelerate the development and commercialization of these applications.
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Excerpt: Broadband for Economic Development
Broadband for Economic Development. Excerpted from “Broadband in Allegany County: Status, Opportunities, and Strategies,” prepared for Allegany County Board of Education, July 2012
Cost of Connectivity 2012
From New America Foundation
In this study, we compare high-speed Internet offerings in 22 cities around the world by price, download and upload speed, and bundled services. We have included some of the most relevant findings from our research in the report that follows, as well as a discussion of policy recommendations for the U.S.
Digital Divide: Expanding Broadband Access to Small Businesses
Testimony of The Honorable Lawrence E. Strickling Assistant Secretary for Communications and Information National Telecommunications and Information Administration United States Department of Commerce. Before the Committee on Small Business United States House of Representatives.
Innovation and Employment in the Intelligent Community
In 2013, Intelligent Community Forum will examine the relationship between innovation – one of the Intelligent Community Indicators – and employment in communities around the world. A massive body of evidence points to the fact that innovation creates prosperity. The prosperity flows from new demand – who needed an iPod or iPad until one was created? – or from empowering us to do more with the same resources of raw materials, people and money. But prosperity is not always the same as employment. In each recession of the past 50 years, job recovery has been significantly slower than in the previous recession. The recent recession in the industrialized world is only the most dramatic example of a “jobless recovery” – and that is in nations managing to post positive economic numbers at all.
FTTH Home Value Findings
RVA Market Research & Consulting shows how fiber to the home affects home values.
Exploding Five Common Broadband Myths
RVA Market Research and Consulting debunks five common broadband myths.
Upgrading America and Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage
Upgrading America: Achieving a Strategic Bandwidth Advantage And a Psychology of Bandwidth Abundance To Drive High-Performance Knowledge Exchange
Fujitsu Conference on Paving the Road to Unlimited Bandwidth: Technologies and Applications for a Connected Age
San Jose, California June 13, 2012
Blair Levin Speech
Florida Fiber: Martin County Saves Big With Gigabit Network
Martin County, located on Florida’s Atlantic coast, faced a problem shared by local governments across the nation: the rapidly escalating cost of telecommunications access. For ten years, the County had connected schools and other public facilities with leased lines from the local cable company but Comcast was threatening to radically increase its prices after the lease expired in 2010.
Martinsville Companies Expand, Create Jobs
When looking to relocate or expand, businesses have very specific criteria they look for in a location. On the heels of several announcements of corporate expansions and recruitment, Martinsville-Henry County is proving to be an ideal location.
Broadband Communities Magazine Municipal Snapshots
Look to these highly detailed articles on specific technology used in specific deployments –
and the reasons for the choices made.
Broadband as an Economic Driver
By David Salway
There is little debate that increasing broadband access spurs economic development, but can this be quantified? There have been numerous studies by economic and telecommunications analysts which study the correlation between broadband access and number of jobs created, as well as measuring the economic impact of broadband. There are multiple economic factors that could affect the results, as well many facets of providing broadband Internet access, which have the potential to significantly affect the results.
Strategies for Economic Improvement in Appalachia’s Distressed Rural Counties
This report provides an understanding of the challenges confronting economic and community development efforts in rural Appalachian communities and explains the ways local governments, agencies, and community organizations plan and respond to challenging issues. The authors of this report examined ten representative case study counties, which were selected using a number of criteria, including economic performance, location, infrastructure investment, and demographic factors.
Can’t Afford Broadband for Your Community? Think again.
By Craig Settles
I spent Monday and Tuesday this week at the Freedom to Connect (F2C) conference in DC, which was a great event on many levels. One truly cool aspect was hanging out with a bunch of advocates and doers who believe in the power of communities finding their best broadband solutions (from a myriad of public, private and nonprofit options) to address the dismal state of broadband in the US.
Primer: What Fiber Broadband Can Do For Your Community
From Broadband Communities Magazine
Fiber to the home (FTTH) has become the leading technology for next-generation communications networks worldwide. On every continent, telecom providers are building fiber optic networks. They know that only FTTH can meet the growing demand for broadband services that require delivering video to (and from) multiple tablets, computers and television sets in a home, all at the same time.