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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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Here you'll find convenient research items culled from the best broadband data sources. If you need to find bite-sized talking points on a tight deadline, you're in the right place. We've already done the hard part for you!

Facts tagged with Streaming

Each day, 22 Million Hours of Old TV Shows and Movies are Watched on Netflix

22 million hours of old TV shows and movies are watched on Netflix.  That’s how many hours of movies are watched in theatres in 3 days.

Research Area: Broadband TrafficThen and Now

Tags: broadband, video, internet, data, traffic, television, streaming, consumption, hours

Spector, Dina. “Everything That Happens In One Day On The Internet.” Business Insider. March 5, 2012.

Each day, 18.7 Million Hours of Music is Streamed on Pandora

18.7 million hours of music is streamed on Pandora.  If a computer started streaming Pandora in year 1 AD, it’d still be streaming now.

Research Area: Broadband TrafficThen and Now

Tags: broadband, internet, data, traffic, music, streaming, consumption, radio, downloads, pandora

Spector, Dina. “Everything That Happens In One Day On The Internet.” Business Insider. March 5, 2012.

864,000 Hours of Video are Uploaded to Youtube

Each day, 864,000 hours of video are uploaded to Youtube.

Research Area: Broadband TrafficThen and Now

Tags: broadband, video, youtube, internet, data, traffic, streaming, consumption

Spector, Dina. “Everything That Happens In One Day On The Internet.” Business Insider. March 5, 2012.

Streaming tunes on an Internet radio station like Pandora draws down 60 megabytes each hour.

Research Area: Broadband Traffic

Tags: internet, streaming, megabytes, pandora, internet radio

Jenna Wortham, “As Devices Pull More Data, Patience May Be Required.” New York Times, 1/27/10.

Transmitting standard video requires eight to ten times as much bandwidth as voice phone calls or music files. High-definition television (HDTV) will require five to six times the bandwidth of standard definition video.

Research Area: Network Infrastructure

Tags: speed, video, bandwidth, infrastructure, music, streaming, hdtv

Windhausen, John Jr. “A Plan to Extend Super-Fast Broadband Connections to All Americans.” The Century Foundation.(January 27, 2009). Pp. 8.
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