John Hennessy III,
P.E.
UNITED STATES CENSUS BUREAU Introduction In 2011, more Americans connected to the Internet than ever before, although differences continued to exist between those with use and those without. Just as with differences in use, variation in the ways that people were connecting online and the frequency of their use remained prevalent as well. This report […]
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IBM SMARTER CITIES Executive Summary Omaha, Nebraska, was one of the 33 cities selected to receive a Smarter Cities Challenge® grant from IBM in 2012 as part of IBM’s citizenship efforts to build a Smarter Planet®. Since the program’s inception in 2010, 64 cities have received Smarter Cities Challenge grants, and many of these have […]
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From Global Strategic Management Institute: Register here What is GDCon?The Green Data Center Conference and Exhibition seeks to provide strategic information for data center professionals looking to optimize their facility through increased energy efficiency and innovative data center design trends. Industry experts, interactive workshops and case study presentations will be used to demonstrate the cost […]
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Tom Ferree is the Preisdent and COO for Connected Nation. Topics include:
People Care about Broadband
Exciting Public-Private Collaboration
Michiganʼs Success: A National Microcosm?
Government Funding Makes a Difference
Connected Nationʼs Mission
EveryoneOn launches in Philadelphia from Knight Foundation on Vimeo. In an attempt to level the digital playing field, especially for the 41% of Philadelphians who don’t have home Internet access, yesterday, EveryoneOn had its local launch in Philadelphia. The campaign, also recently launched in Charlotte and other US cities, aims to connect Americans to free […]
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AARP PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE
The experience of Internet connectivity has changed substantially since the mid- 1990s. For many Internet users, what was once predominantly a medium for sending email and reading Web pages has become a more powerful and common platform for accessing and sharing all types of interactive multimedia services. Much of this change is the result of technologies that have increased the capacity of users to transmit audio, video, and data across the Internet.
FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
This 2013 Measuring Broadband America—February Report contains the most recent results from the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) Measuring Broadband America program. This program, whose first results were published in August 2011, is an ongoing, rigorous, nationwide study of residential broadband performance in the United States. This study, like those conducted before, involves actual performance tests for thousands of subscribers of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) serving well over 80 percent of the residential market.
CONNECT MICHIGAN
Does broadband matter to the economy? The answer to this question has a number of far-reaching implications. If increasing broadband access, adoption, and usage helps households save money or earn income in excess of what they have to pay to be connected, then getting connected to the Internet would represent a positive return on investment, and show itself worth the cost of subscribing.
TELEGEOGRAPHY
The Submarine Cable Map is a free resource from TeleGeography. Data contained in this map is drawn from Global Bandwidth Research Service and is updated on a regular basis.
GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE
Affordable access to broadband telecommunications is increasingly viewed as vital to the country’s economic growth as well as for improving state and local systems for traffic management, public safety, and educational goals. According to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the largest cost element for deploying broadband via fiber optic cable is the cost of placement, such as burying the fiber in the ground, rather than the cost of the fiber itself.
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