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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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Communities with new access to broadband experienced 6.4 percent higher employment growth
- on average than before they had broadband.
Investment in information and communication technologies (ICT) like broadband
contributed almost 1 percent (0.8%) to average annual real GDP growth in the United States from 1994 to 2000.
The Federal Communications Commission (“FCC”) recently reported that the total number of broadband connections in the United States was 132 million by the middle of 2008, compared to only 6.7 million at the end of 2000.
According to Broadband for America, in 2008, the broadband/information technology sectors of the economy created nearly half of all the new jobs in America.
According to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, in 2003, about 15% of Americans had access to broadband in their homes and that number has grown to nearly two-thirds of the country.
According to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, in 2003, about 15% of Americans had access to broadband in their homes and that number has grown to nearly two-thirds of the country.
According to FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, some form of wireline-based broadband is available to roughly 95 percent of Americans.
According to the FCC’s broadband website, minorities control only 815 radio stations out of a total of 11,249 operating in the US – just 7.24%.
According to the recent Pew Home Broadband Adoption Report, 40% of Hispanic households have broadband connections at home, compared with 63% of all American households.
Broadband Internet access is currently available in 90 percent of the United States and installed in roughly 73 million homes