[Chapter-delegates] ISOC DC Broadband panel Friday

[Dave Burstein]

Friday April 26. Livestreamed from 9 a.m. D.C. time.
https://new.livestream.com/internetsociety/dc-broadband

If you send me relevant questions by email ahead I'll make sure to ask
them.
 Jodie Griffin is a public interest lawyer and the other three panelists
are pros bringing decades of experience. Presentations will be short and at
least 3/4ths of the time will be devoted to comments and questions.
  I'm particularly interested in three areas most can agree we need good
answers.

  Putting more spectrum to use we all agree is worthwhile. How to do it

   Is it practical to have more wireline competition? Can we bring to the
U.S. what works elsewhere?

   What are innovative solutions for the last 5-10% who don't have a clear
path to 100 meg wired and 20 meg wireless?

  Panelist Robert C. Atkinson of Columbia University wrote in 2009:

By 2013‐4, broadband service  providers expect to be able to serve about
95% of U.S. homes with at least a low speed of wired  broadband service and
they expect to offer to about 90% of homes advertised speeds of 50 mbps
 downstream. Service providers expect to provide many homes with access to
these higher speeds by  2011‐2012 Wireless broadband service providers
expect to offer wireless access at advertised speeds  ranging up to 12 mbps
downstream...

    A second conclusion that can be drawn is that a significant number of
U.S. homes, perhaps five to ten  million (which represent 4.5 to 9 percent
of households), will have significantly inferior choices.” CITI Broadband
in America Report for the National Broadband Plan

   See you there.Bandwidth for the Buck: The State of Broadband Access &
Competition in the USEvent Details

Access to broadband internet is vital for economic innovation and growth,
therefore ensuring the highest levels of competition and access are key to
the future of the economy. Recently several high profile studies have
examined the state of broadband competition in the United States and
reached different conclusions.

Please join ISOC-DC and our distinguished panel for a substantative
discussion on broadband access and competition issues in the US:

What is the state of broadband competition in the US?

Do American consumers really pay more for slower speeds?

What is the best way to get to universal access?

What objectives should national broadband policy try to achieve?

* *The Panel

Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D. - President, Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation <http://www.itif.org/people/robert-d-atkinson>

Jeffrey A. Eisenach, Ph.D. - Managing Director, Navigant
Economics<http://www.naviganteconomics.com/who/eisenach_pri.php>,
Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise
Institute<http://www.aei.org/scholar/jeffrey-eisenach/>

Jodie Griffin - Staff Attorney, Public
Knowledge<http://www.publicknowledge.org/user/3624>

Robert C. Atkinson - Director of Policy Research,
CITI<http://www.citi.columbia.edu/atkinson.htm>

Moderator -  Dave Burstein, Editor, DSL Prime <http://fastnetnews.com/>

Schedule

8:30 - 9:10 Breakfast and Networking

9:10 - 10:20 Panel Discussion

10:20 - 11:00 Question and Answer
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