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Below is the abstract I submitted to the Open Technology Initiative's call for papers for their Broadband Act of 2011 invitation-only event in late September. I thought I'd share it with you all as it sums up points I've tried...
There's been a lot of buzz recently around Congress questioning the FCC's decision to set a universal broadband goal of 4Mbps down 1Mbps up by 2020 relative to the FCC's 100 Squared goal of 100 million homes having access to...
I spent the last two weeks with my wife eating our way through Paris and Italy. We went into the trip with very little preparation due to our hectic schedules and relatively last minute nature of the trip, except for...
Over the weekend during my travels through Paris with my wife I had a chance to visit with Michael Curri of SNG Networks at his home. While there he highlighted something that while I knew as a data point hit...
AT&T just announced that they're changing the way they offer wireless service to devices like the iPad and iPhone. Instead of paying $30 a month for "unlimited" service (really a 5GB cap), now new subscribers will have to pay $15/month...
Yesterday, Ookla released the Net Index, a ranking of average broadband speeds by city, state, and country. As background, Ookla is the company that powers the bandwidth tests at Speedtest.net and Pingtest.net. They also license their bandwidth testing engine to...
Tomorrow the FCC will release its national broadband plan. Finally, ten years into the 21st century, America will have a plan for encouraging the deployment, adoption, and utilization of this most crucial of infrastructure. But how are we to judge...
While we often bemoan America's trailing position in the Great Bandwidth Race, I've just learned that not only are we not doing enough to catch up, we're actually slowing down, so says the latest State of the Internet report from...
One of my biggest pet peeves in broadband debates is the over-emphasis on download speeds and the lack of sufficient attention being paid to upload speeds. When talking about bandwidth goals, they're download first, upload second. When providers are advertising...
The term "bandwidth hogs" has been much debated in broadband policy circles over the last couple of years. Most recently, Benoit Felten, someone who I respect tremendously as a clear-thinking industry expert, has raised the question of whether or not...
Last week in a meeting with a highly respected colleague of mine in DC, I experienced one of the most eye-opening and disappointing moments of my time in the world of broadband policy. The conversation revolved around my argument that...
After yesterday's piece on how defining broadband based on 3Mbps down 1Mbps up is inadequate, I want to share more specific thoughts on the kinds of bandwidth goals American should be setting. An important first step is to realize that...
So apparently there's some level of consensus getting entrenched among DC policy circles that setting the residential broadband bar at 3Mbps down and 1Mbps up is adequate. Well I'm here today to refute that thinking, to show that this isn't...
I've recently learned that there's still some debate going on as to whether or not all community anchor institutions need fiber. Let's put that to rest here and now. Before going any further, let me admit upfront that I understand...
The debate surrounding what bandwidth goals should be set to guide the creation of America's broadband policies suffers from a gaping chasm between arguments for aspirational vs. "realistic" benchmarks. Those in the "realistic" category often limit themselves to goals as...
On Wednesday NTIA and RUS released their long-awaited, eagerly anticipated Notice of Funds Availability (NOFA) for the BTOP and BIP programs, respectively, which aim to spur the deployment of broadband through making available billions in grants and loans. While there's...
I recently framed the debate about how much bandwidth we need around what happens when we reach a point where everyone's using high quality video applications all the time. But there are other ways that demand for bandwidth is trending...
Discussions surrounding how much bandwidth we need are missing the point by striving to list all the different types of applications people use. The question we should be asking is simple: how much bandwidth do we need to support a...
Whenever anyone's talking about broadband they invariably refer to its speed, asking questions like how fast your service is. The answers are then given in terms of Kbps, Mbps, and Gbps. But in reality these measurements have nothing to do...
Through all the consternation surrounding Time Warner's new bandwidth caps their limitations are always discussed relative to downloading high quality movies. While this is a practical way of thinking about these caps, there's another angle that's even more striking to...
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