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Net@EDU : Overview on Broadband. Mark Uncapher, Senior Vice President & Counsel, ITAA October 1, 2003. About ITAA. Established in 1961 Over 400 Corporate Members Plus global affiliate, WITSA Offices in Arlington, VA and Silicon Valley Leader in Public Policy Advocacy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Net@EDU: Overview onBroadband
Mark Uncapher, Senior Vice President & Counsel, ITAA
October 1, 2003
About ITAA
Established in 1961 Over 400 Corporate Members
Plus global affiliate, WITSA Offices in Arlington, VA and Silicon Valley
Leader in Public Policy Advocacy Internet, E-Commerce, Broadband
Specialty Internet Division
Discussion over Broadband Should Focus on Benefit to Users
•Broadband is more than infrastructure investment.
•ITAA is afraid that limiting to “platform to platform” competition, as opposed, as opposed to intra-module competition, will reduce consumer choices.
•Need to provide Consumers – be they individuals or businesses – more choices, new choices to broadband applications content and services.
•No one wants Empty Pipes.
What Constitutes Telecom Sector Recovery?
Recovery Requires Unprecedented Convergence of IT and Telecom
Demand (User Take Rate) Lags Supply
0%
20%
40%
60%
80%
100%
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
DSL Availability DSL Take RateCable Availability Cable Take Rate
Source: Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, July 2001
Per
cent
age
of U
S H
omes Supply
DemandGAP
Demand
Drivers of Broadband Demand
High Speed Connection
66%
Other5%
Always On14%
Doesn't Use Phone Line
15%
Source: Primary Research; McKinsey and JPMS analysis
Current Broadband
*Input from Existing Broadband Subscribers
Interactive Games Remote
Access to Work
Interactive TV
Video Conferenc-
ing
Video-on-Demand
Next Generation Broadband
Broadband Vision
BROADBANDVISION
BROADBANDVISION
CompetitiveCommunicationsInfrastructure
ContentServicesApplications
FinancialSocial EconomicFactors
Baseof Users
HardwareSoftwareDevices •Economic
Investment•Infrastructure Rollout•Empowered Users
Our Industry Supports User Connectivity Choice Consumers should have a right to meaningful information regarding
their service; Consumers should have access to their choice of Internet content; Customers should be allowed to run applications of their choice, if they
do not harm the provider's network and their bandwidth service plan limits;
Consumers should be permitted to attach any devices they choose if they operate within the agreed bandwidth and don’t harm the provider's network;
Some have been wary about creating a new set of FCC regulations – including for the first time, regulation of ISPs.
High Tech Broadband Coalition Comments to the FCC on the Appropriate Regulatory Treatment of Broadband Access to the Internet Over Cable Facilities June 18, 2002
ITAA Supports Diversity Among Broadband
ISPs for Connectivity Choice An alternative, more market –oriented strategy to Connectivity
Choice is to continue existing the policies that would promote vigorous competition and variety among ISPs offering wireline high-speed Internet access services.
ISP BB competition and diversity also provides market-based assurance to e-commerce companies, that ISPs will not hinder access to their websites or applications.
Letting consumers to choose from among a large variety of wireline broadband ISPs uses market forces to promote Connectivity Choice.
Transparency about new "fiber to the home" investments to measure progress
ITAA has asked for transparency about new "fiber to the home" investments.
While the FCC chose not to adopt the mandatory build out metrics that many in the high-tech industry had sought as part of the Triennial Review, reporting requirements are a reasonable substitute approach.
Good information is necessary for application, content and others to make informed decisions about the available market.
As the Triennial decision moves to the courts, investment transparency could counteract the impression that investment is slowing as a result of litigation.
Spectrum and RecoveryWireless Local Area Networks
Platform for Integration of Multiple Intelligent Devices from Edge of Network
W-LAN Equipment Sales Up 150% since 2000 to over $2 Billion
Enterprise, Home and Public Access Markets
Gartner Research Projects 5.4 Million Users Worldwide this Year
VOIP and Recovery
Voice Traffic over IP (data) Networks
$1 Billion Global Revenues Application Growing to $7 Billion Plus in Three Years
Provides Phone Number Portability and Many Other Network Efficiencies
Poses Options for Integrating Voice with Other Applications (e.g., Voice E-Mail)
Grids and Recovery IT Resources + High Speed IP Connectivity = Global Information Utility
On the Fly SupercomputingData Rich Applications in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Engineering, Business and MoreCreates Virtual Organizations and CollaborationsUtility Delivers everything from Advanced Simulations to every day Videoconferencing and WebcastingPumping IP Traffic to 550 Exabytes by 2008*
One Exabyte = 1,152,921,504,606,846,976 bytes
Applications and Recovery
Other Promising Applications for Immediate Impact: E-Work E-Health E-Education E-Government E-Entertainment
A Positive, Competitive Broadband Agenda for the Nation
Mark UncapherMuncapher@itaa.org703-284-5344www.positivelybroadband.org