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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Additional Investment Requirements May Well Reach $350 Billion
The FCC broadband task force suggested that the additional investment requirements, including wiring every household with fiber, may well reach $350 billion.
College Towns Are Some of the Best Connected Cities in the United States
According to Akamai’s State of the Internet report, college towns are some of the best connected cities in the United States, with Berkeley, CA, Chapel Hill, NC, Stanford, CA, Durham, NC and Ithaca, NY leading the pack. The remaining cities in the top 10 are Ann Arbor, MI, College Station, TX, Urbana, IL, Cambridge, MA and University Park, PA.
Japan Features Nearly Half of the World’s Fastest Cities
According to Akamai’s State of the Internet report, nearly half (48) of the 100 fastest cities (average measured connection speeds) are in Japan and over a fifth (21) are in the United States.
Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households
Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households, according to a January research report by SNL Kagan.
In 2008…fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%
According to the FCC, DSL connections were up 3% in 2008 to 30 million, while fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%.
Fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections were up 10% in 2008
According to the FCC, fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections (by the high speed definition of 768 Kbps downstream and more than 200 upstream) were up 10% in 2008 to 77 million, but that was down from the 17% increase the year before.
The United States spends about 2 percent of GDP per year on infrastructure investment
(this includes federal, state and local, and private sector spending) compared to about 5 percent in Europe and 9 percent in China.
The FCC has found that broadband is available in 100 percent of zip codes in the United States, service remains relatively scarce in those zip codes with very low population densities.
Analysts expect that wired broadband internet access availability will plateau and reach about 95% of homes in the United States by 2015 while more than 69% of households will subscribe by 2015.
An OC-3 line is capable of transmitting 155 mbps while an OC-48 can transmit 2.48 gbps.
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