The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.
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Monday, August 10
Jonathan Orszag, co-author of the groundbreaking study “The Substantial Consumer Benefits of Broadband Connectivity for U.S. Households,” has penned an op-ed for Multichannel News on how broadband is now a necessity for all Americans. Check it out.
Tuesday, March 10
IIA co-founder Larry Irving has penned an op-ed for Roll Call on the broadband portion of the federal economic stimulus. Here’s an excerpt:
Virtually every analyst agrees that rural Americans are the least likely to have available access to broadband. Geography and economics conspire against investment in broadband in America. It is simply not easy to recoup broadband investment in states where cattle outnumber people and homes are dispersed widely. Fiber optic and other broadband technologies are expensive to deploy in these areas, and broadband wireless technologies are just now becoming fully viable for deployment.
Just as this nation brought electricity, telephones and Internet service to rural America, we must make broadband networks ubiquitously available, as well. Appropriately, the lion’s share of this funding will address broadband in unserved areas through programs at the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture. In addition, funding will be available for improving broadband networks at libraries, community colleges, community technology centers and other locations where low-income families and the working poor are most likely to go for broadband access. According to Morgan Stanley, the national residential broadband penetration rate is currently about 56 percent of all households. For those 40 million plus households who don’t have broadband at home, and for those tens of millions of Americans without basic Internet access who disproportionately are poor, recent immigrants, senior citizens or other minorities, these community investments will make broadband more available and more accessible.
Check out the full op-ed. And for more articles from IIA’s founders, visit the op-ed section of the IIA press room.
Thursday, January 29
Conservatives generally see no positive role for government in promoting the growth and expansion of America’s dynamic high tech sector. Yet that is a mistake, particularly with respect to the deployment and adoption of broadband Internet, where the conservative cause cries out for a national broadband strategy.
The above quote is from an op-ed in Real Clear Poltics titled “The Conservative Case for Broadband.” Its author was none other than IIA Co-Chairman Bruce Mehlman. You can read the full article here.
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