Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
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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Internet traffic will increase fivefold over the next five years, driven in large part by a jump in the amount of video transmitted across the network [Cisco Systems].
The amount of traffic generated each month by YouTube is now equivalent to the amount of traffic generated across the entire internet in all of 2000.
Broadband usage is exploding at a rapid pace and is driven by trends like video and music downloading, photo sharing and online gaming, AT&T spokesperson Mike Barger said. If the trend continues, he said, AT&T would see its total bandwidth increase by four times in the next three years.
Internet trending research suggests that families are spending more of their leisure time during evening hours on Internet-based entertainment and communication applications such as YouTube, Xbox Live and Skype.
In December [2008], almost 100 million viewers in the United States watched 5.9 billion YouTube videos, according to comScore.
98.9 million viewers watched 5.9 billion videos on YouTube.com (59.2 videos per viewer). [December, 2008]