From rob at omsoft.com Thu Nov 21 09:30:43 2019 From: rob at omsoft.com (Robert Nickerson) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 09:30:43 -0800 Subject: [Davisgig] Fwd: CLIC offers A New Vision for America's Broadband Future for the 2020s In-Reply-To: <09c6fc743c87e862042edd5d5.d1bb241e3d.20191121134415.f366c63388.86614596@mail108.suw151.rsgsv.net> References: <09c6fc743c87e862042edd5d5.d1bb241e3d.20191121134415.f366c63388.86614596@mail108.suw151.rsgsv.net> Message-ID: Hi All Hope everyone is surviving well. Thought this might be an interesting read to share. Take Care RAN -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: CLIC offers A New Vision for America's Broadband Future for the 2020s Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 13:44:20 +0000 From: Coalition for Local Internet Choice Reply-To: Coalition for Local Internet Choice To: rob at omsoft.com CLIC offers A New Vision for America's Broadband Future for the 2020s Jon Sallet (Benton), Vint Cerf (Google) and Jim Baller (CLIC) provided a new vision for America's Broadband Future in Alexandria, VA A New Vision for America's Broadband Future View this email in your browser Jon Sallet ?(Benton), Vint Cerf (Google) and Jim Baller (CLIC) address a New Vision for America's Broadband Future for the 2020s See our blog this week about a moment worth remembering. To a?packed audience in Alexandria, Virginia, on October 31, CLIC's President, Jim Baller, led a refreshing discussion on a new vision for America's broadband future for the 2020s. Gail Roper, Director of National Initiatives for the Knight Foundation, set the tone of the conversation and noted how the Knight Foundation emphasizes the importance of access?and equity as new internet applications unfold. Gail then introduced Jim Baller, who guided Jon Sallet (Senior Fellow at the Benton Institute) and Vint Cerf (Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google) through a spirited discussion of the key components of Jon's special report for the Benton Institute for Broadband and Society, entitled??Broadband for America's Future: A Vision for the 2020s .? CLIC will be providing access to the video of this engaging workshop shortly. In the meantime, highlights of this?exchange can be found here , including those paraphrased below: */The Goal of the Report:/* *Jon Sallet:*?Our report has a very simple goal. By the end of the next decade, everyone in America should be able to have affordable access to high-performance broadband and the ability to use it.?Consumers should have robust, competitive choices, over networks that are fit for the future and readily scalable to meet demand that we can't predict. */Overbuilding/*: *Jon Sallet*: When we say in the Report that overbuilding enhances competition, we are emphasizing that the mode of analysis should be a competition analysis.?We should be focusing on the ultimate benefits to consumers, including the competitive benefits resulting from pushing incumbents to provide better services and to charge competitive prices. Absent some anti-competitive conduct, we believe in a system based on the principle that ?The More Competitors the Merrier.? *Vint Cerf:* Monopolies should only be tolerated if they can't be avoided, and when monopolies are unavoidable, they should be subject to meaningful regulatory checks and balances. More important, suppose that a community is served inadequately or not at all by a monopoly. Why on earth should the community be prevented from investing in a network that serves its needs?? If someone is complaining that government shouldn?t compete with the private sector, that?s baloney. *Jon Sallet: *The FCC measures presence of broadband providers and systematically overcounts the presence of competitors....Over 70% of Americans either have no choice for fixed broadband or a monopoly or one choice?that is to say?a duopoly. I am a competition policy guy. We don't believe two is enough to be fully competitive. */The Report's Recommendations/*: *Jon Sallet:* The Report has pages and pages of recommendations. Many of them were based on what people around the country were doing, sometimes successfully, sometimes not.?That?s important because municipalities are serving as what Louis Brandeis called laboratories.? They are trying things out. Sometimes open access middle mile, sometimes retail service, sometimes working with rural electric coops, sometimes working with electric systems, sometimes entering into new forms of partnership between private and public entities. What is important about these recommendations is that they were based on what we saw in operation. To be a (free) CLIC member, JOIN US or: CLIC HERE Website Website Tweet Forward *Our mailing address is:* info at localnetchoice.org unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences This email was sent to rob at omsoft.com /why did I get this?/ unsubscribe from this list update subscription preferences Coalition for Local Internet Choice ? 2014 P Street, NW ? Washington, DC 20036 ? USA Email Marketing Powered by Mailchimp -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: