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.
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Key Legal and Regulatory Issues Affecting Community Broadband Projects – Broadband Communities Summit, Austin, TX, April 10, 2014
Economic Impact of the ARRA, Five Years Later
From the White House Council of Economic Advisors
As part of the accountability and transparency provisions included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) was charged with providing to Congress quarterly reports on the effects of the Recovery Act on overall economic activity, and on employment in particular. In this final report, we provide an assessment of the effects of the Act through the fourth quarter of 2013 as well as an assessment of subsequent jobs measures.
Technical Strategies for Facilitating Public or Private Broadband Construction in Your Community
Commissioned by Google, prepared by CTC Technology & Energy
State Developments 2013
Arthur D. Little: “National Fibre Strategies”
The socioeconomic benefits of advanced telecommunications infrastructure and services are intuitive, as well as definitive. Global studies by Arthur D. Little on the socioeconomic benefits of broadband have demonstrated the links between advanced telecommunications and the diversity and strength of economies.
A Gigabit Garden Begins to Grow: Lessons from the First Planting
Is the wireline network that serves your community good enough to meet your needs 10 years from now? If the answer is “yes”, you’re in luck. Because we can guarantee you will be able to have that network. If the answer is “no”, then the question is: what are you going to do about it? Because if current trends continue, what your community has today might well be what it has a decade hence.
An approach to forecasting requirements for the period 2013-2023
This paper sets out the methodology and results of a model that seeks to forecast UK domestic demand for broadband capacity. As far as we are aware, it is the first such model to be put into the public domain. It has been developed by Communications Chambers, and commissioned by the Broadband Stakeholder Group (BSG) with support from BSkyB, BT, Ofcom, TalkTalk, Three and Vodafone.
Cost of Connectivity 2013
From New America Foundation
Last year, the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Institute published The Cost of Connectivity, a first-of-its-kind study of the cost of consumer broadband services in 22 cities around the world. The results showed that, in comparison to their international peers, Americans in major cities such as New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC are paying higher prices for slower Internet service. While the plans and prices have been updated in the intervening year, the 2013 data shows little progress, reflecting remarkably similar trends to what we observed in 2012.
Internet Enabled Small Businesses Bolster US Economy
The Internet Association commissioned Harris Interactive to conduct qualitative and quantitative research to understand and quantify the impact Internet enabled part-time businesses have on the overall economy of the United States.
400+ World Bank ICT projects
Wireless Broadband Infrastructure: A Catalyst For GDP and Job Growth
This report evaluates the economic and job-creation impacts generated by projected wireless infrastructure investments between $34 billion to $36 billion per year over the next five years.
Members of the US Broadband Coalition
Comprehensive list of members belonging to the US Broadband Coalition.
Planning for Progress: Why National Plans Matter
In today’s digital era, the role for broadband – and the benefits of broadband connectivity – in underpinning a country’s progress have never been greater. That is why ITU and the ITU/UNESCO Broadband Commission for Digital Development have conducted research into the role of policy frameworks for broadband, in conjunction with Cisco.
This Report finds that there has been strong recent growth in Plans, with some 134 Plans in force by mid-2013. Plans may take different forms (e.g. legislation, policy framework, strategy and/or regulations) and vary in emphasis (e.g. IT, Information Society, ICT,
Digital Agenda, or Broadband). Plans prior to 2005 tended to focus on Information Technology (IT) or Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The Information Society proved most popular as the focus of Plans in 2007-2008, with broadband growing sharply as the focus of Plans from 2008 onwards. Most recently, Digital Agendas account for a small, but growing, number of Plans. However, all of these Plans share a common emphasis on the vital role of broadband in underpinning national competitiveness, and aim to extend national footprint of broadband networks and usage of broadband-enabled services and applications.
Evolution and Prospects of Cable Networks for Broadband Services
In the summer of 2012, an excellent TNO report appeared, describing the evolution and prospects of Cable networks for Broadband services. In it, TNO set out how owners of a coax cable network can upgrade in steps and withstand the competition from an optical fiber network as long as possible. The provision of Gigabit broadband services is the new challenge for cable networks. With existing DOCSIS3.0 techniques, cable networks are marketing broadband services to 150 Mb/s.