Articles Posted with the Pew Internet & American Life Project Tag
Broadband's Impact, FCC Workshops, National Broadband Plan
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Balancing Broadband Supply and Demand in Quest to Stoke High-Speed Internet Adoption
Blog Entries, Broadband Data, Expert Opinion
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
‘Broadband Census for America’ United Scholars and State Officials
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON – September 29, 2009 – From the beginning, BroadbandCensus.com has aimed at providing academics, consumers, government officials and industry with the high-quality data needed about the state of broadband throughout the country. We believe in public and transparent broadband data. Without public and transparent broadband data, each of these constituents are lacking in what they need. It is heartening that the highest levels of the Obama administration see and espouse the virtues of transparency and of a data-driven approach to broadband policy. Again today, it came clear that the FCC now seeks to do that which BroadbandCensus.com has been doing since February 2008 – comparing actual speeds with advertised speeds – on an even more finely grained basis. Now comes the hard part: translating the rhetoric and positive feelings about public and open broadband data into concrete decisions that will drive better-quality broadband data. Last week I began this five-part series during One Web Week. I focused on the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit to obtain broadband data in 2006, and on the founding of BroadbandCensus.com in the fall of 2007. Much has happened on broadband data in the past week: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced a new...Broadband Data
Saturday, September 26th, 2009
TPRC Panelists Agree on Need for Better Broadband Data
Editor’s Note: This is the one of a series of panelist summary articles that BroadbandCensus.com will be reporting from the Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, September 25-27, at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va.
By Rahul Gaitonde, Reporter, Broadband-Census.com
ARLINGTON, Va., September 25, 2009 - In a panel about the socio-economic impacts of broadband, panelists all agreed that the overwhelming limiting factor in proving the benefits to broadband was the lack of solid broadband data. James McConnaughey, chief economist at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, said that “Having good data leads to good policy making,” but currently that policy-makers currently lack the necessary data to allow for effective cost-benefit analysis or even general societal implication analysis. McConnaughey also said that broadband data collected must come from reliable and neutral sources. The Census Bureau has recently reinvigorated its efforts in this field, but it cannot be the only source. Robert Atkinson, president of the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, called for a National Broadband Data Warehouse.” Such a warehouse would house all the data on availability and usage which was collected by the government, and any organization which is getting federal funding to aid in broadband expansion or mapping. The data warehouse was...Blog Entries, Expert Opinion
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com: Starting the Ball Rolling on Crowdsourcing
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2009 – Public and transparent broadband data has now been elevated to the level of a fundamental principle, at least in the Monday speech by Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski. But it’s worth reflecting on the time – not so long ago – when the quest to collect this kind of broadband data was an unrealized vision at the losing end of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. On Monday, I recounted the history and aftermath of this FOIA request and lawsuit that the Center for Public Integrity filed again Kevin Martin’s FCC. In many ways, that defeat directly set the stage for the launch of BroadbandCensus.com in the fall of 2007. All this week, during One Web Week, I’m speaking about the history of BroadbandCensus.com from a personal perspective. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to speak about what we’ve been through, who we have worked with to advance the principles of public and transparent broadband data, and what we ultimately aim to achieve at BroadbandCensus.com.Blog Entries, Expert Opinion
Monday, September 21st, 2009
BroadbandCensus.com: Leading the Charge for Public and Transparent Data
By Drew Clark, Editor, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, September 21, 2009 – Broadband data is important for the future of our country – and public and transparent broadband data is even more important. Today, at this moment, new Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is making a speech in which he is highlighting the vital principle of public and transparent broadband data. For three years now, this principle has been the core belief animating my efforts as a journalist, and as the entrepreneur founding BroadbandCensus.com. Now, as we enter the fourth year since this saga began, it’s time to take stock and reflect on what BroadbandCensus.com has accomplished. And with One Web Week having arrived, I’d like to lay out this history from a personal perspective. In this series of blog posts, I’m going to speak about what we’ve been through, who we have worked with to advance the principles of public and transparent broadband data, and what we ultimately aim to achieve at BroadbandCensus.com.Broadband Events
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009
Broadband Breakfast Club Announces ‘Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan’
BroadbandCensus.com Unveils New Broadband Breakfast Club on 'Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan'
Series Runs from September 15, 2009, and Culminates on February 9, 2010, One Week Before the Federal Communications Commission's Plan is Due to Congress
Press Release
WASHINGTON, September 9, 2009 - BroadbandCensus.com on Wednesday announced a new series of the Broadband Breakfast Club, “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan,” beginning on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, at 8 a.m. The series, which will run until February 9, 2010, one week before the FCC's plan is due to Congress, will continue the Broadband Breakfast Club’s year-long tradition of inviting top experts and policy-makers to share breakfast and perspectives on broadband technology and internet policy. The first panel, on Tuesday, September 15, 2009, will consider the FCC’s summer broadband workshops. What have they accomplished? What role have and will FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski and his new staff play in shaping the plan? How will this plan unfold over the next six months? And how will the broadband stimulus program already underway affect the development of the FCC's plan? Confirmed panelists for the event include Joe Waz, Senior Vice President, Comcast; Aaron Smith, Research Specialist, Pew Internet & American Life Project; Bruce Kushnick, Executive Director,...Broadband Data, Broadband's Impact
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009
Broadband Investment Spurs Business Growth and Job Creation, Studies Find
By Douglas Streeks, Reporter-Researcher, BroadbandCensus.com
WASHINGTON, July 23, 2009 - Broadband investment, deployment and adoption in the United States will bring significant benefits to the economy, and facilitate business growth and job creation, according to a study commission by the Internet Innovation Alliance, and other groups. According to the July 2009 study, done by Mark Dutz, Jonathan Orszag and Robert Willig of Compass Lexecon, consumers in the U.S. are receiving “more than $30 billion of net benefits from the use of fixed-line broadband at home, with broadband increasingly being perceived as a necessity.” The study, titled “The Substantial Consumer Benefits of Broadband Connectivity for U.S. Households,” [PDF] examined specific ways broadband benefits consumers and it’s overall effect on the economy. The Internet Innovation Alliance is telecom- and technology-industry supported group urging a national broadband policy. According to the study, the benefits to consumers are “on the order of $32 billion per year,” compared to roughly $20 billion in 2005. Based on 2009 survey data, the study estimates that a 10-fold increase in broadband speeds would yield an additional $6 billion a year for existing home broadband users. Further, this data only takes into account the effects of fixed-line internet connections. “The sizable benefits...Broadband's Impact
Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Broadband Growth Not So Bad
From BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2009 – Last week the Pew Internet & American Life Project released its eagerly-awaited report about broadband penetration. To nearly everyone’s surprise, in light of the current recession, the percentage of homes with access to high-speed internet access continued to rise. The survey, conducted by Pew in April, found that 63 percent of adult Americans now have broadband internet connections at home, a 15 percent increase over the year previous, in which was 55 percent of adult Americans. “Broadband adoption appears to have been largely immune to the effects of the current economic recession,” said John Horrigan, Associate Director of Research, in the report. “In the April survey, more than twice as many respondents said they had cut back or cancelled a cell phone plan or cable TV service than said the same about their internet service.” [more...]BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report content available by subscription.
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