Ubiquitous Broadband Deployment

To remain a leader in the global economy, our broadband networks must be ubiquitous. The Innovation Movement supports a national broadband strategy that encourages investment in affordable and competitive high-speed infrastructures.

Latest Developments

Policies that support broadband:

  • Currently the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is prohibited from moving independently to make additional spectrum available for innovative uses. Congressional action authorizing the FCC to put more spectrum into the marketplace would spur job creation and investment, while positioning the U.S. to be the leader in the next generation of wireless technologies.
  • We need spectrum to be redeployed to wireless broadband to power to continue our world lead in tablets and smart phone applications, innovations of today and tomorrow. Voluntary spectrum incentive auctions will be a win-win for broadcasters, consumers, wireless broadband and for cutting the deficit.

Broadband Deployment News

December 27, 2013 via YouTube
CEA’s Michael Petricone Discusses Internet Freedom with Video4Good
January 18, 2013 via YouTube
Happy #InternetFreedomDay! A year ago, SOPA and PIPA were defeated. Watch our videos from the 2013 CES on Internet Freedom

Opinions

July 19, 2012 via The Hill
Broadcasters should man up and compete
June 6, 2012 via Forbes
Dinosaur Broadcasters Turn to Congress to Mandate Their Relevance
By 2015, more U.S. Internet users will access the Internet through mobile devices than through PCs or other wireline devices. (Source: IDC)
U.S. smartphone unit sales will climb an estimated 45 percent in 2012. Tablet computers are projected to grow 157 percent. (Source: CEA)
Smartphones consume 24 times as much data as traditional cell phones, tablets 122 times as much. Analysts forecast a 35x increase in the next 5 years. (Source: FCC).