Getting in the Network Game - Internet Innovation Alliance

August 26, 2013

Is online retail giant Amazon prepping a new wireless network? According to Olga Kharif and Danielle Kucera at Bloomberg, the answer appears to be yes:

Amazon.com Inc. has tested a new wireless network that would allow customers to connect its devices to the Internet, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The wireless network, which was tested in Cupertino, California, used spectrum controlled by satellite communications company Globalstar Inc., said the people who asked not to be identified because the test was private.

Amazon already has its own network, WhisperNet, which delivers books to customer Kindles. But with a more robust network, Amazon could conceivably deliver much more than books.

Research Peek of the Week: 5G Users Consume Almost Twice as much Data as 4G Users in the U.S.

A new report from Opensignal found that in September 2020, 5G users in the U.S. consumed almost twice as much data as 4G users – 16.5GB compared to 8.7GB respectively.

October 28, 2020

Research Peek of the Week: Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Helps Consumers During COVID-19 Pandemic

A recent survey of smartphone users in 11 countries shows that during the COVID-19 pandemic, consumers are finding information and communications technology (ICT) vital for coping with everyday life.

June 24, 2020

FCC Should Follow Signposts for Change With Mobile Broadband

Op-eds

A new survey shows just how fast the market for broadband is changing. Consumers no longer see mobile and fixed internet access alternatives as fundamentally different but use different types of broadband access in similar ways. In other words, mobile and fixed broadband are now functional substitutes.

July 31, 2018

Research Peek of the Week: Consumer Preferences for Broadband are Changing

An increasing number of Americans are relying primarily on their smartphones or web-enabled mobile devices to access a broader number and type of activities, services, and overall information.

July 18, 2018

IIA Releases White Paper and Survey on Consumers’ Use of Internet: Mobile and Fixed Broadband Are Now “Functional Substitutes” for Each Other

Press Releases

Internet Innovation Alliance (IIA) released a survey showing that consumers’ preferences for how they access the internet and how they use the internet have changed dramatically – and that these changes have accelerated over the past two years.

July 17, 2018

Consumer Preferences Tilting Towards Mobile Broadband

Special Reports

IIA believes that now is the right time for the FCC to update and modernize its approach to reporting to Congress on the deployment of advanced telecommunications capability. Because consumers perceive and use mobile and fixed broadband services in essentially the same way, the FCC should now consider mobile and fixed broadband services “functional substitutes” and report to Congress accordingly.

July 17, 2018

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