[Davisgig] Fwd: CLIC offers A New Vision for America's Broadband Future for the 2020s

Thu Nov 21 09:30:43 PST 2019

Hi All

Hope everyone is surviving well. Thought this might be an interesting 
read to share.

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RAN

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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 <Catharine at localnetchoice.org>
Reply-To: 	Coalition for Local Internet Choice 
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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

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    Jon Sallet  (Benton), Vint Cerf (Google) and Jim Baller (CLIC)
    address a New Vision for America's
    Broadband Future for the 2020s

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See our blog this week 
<https://localnetchoice.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09c6fc743c87e862042edd5d5&id=f34babc3f4&e=d1bb241e3d> 
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 
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CLIC will be providing access to the video of this engaging workshop 
shortly. In the meantime, highlights of this exchange can be found here 
<https://localnetchoice.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=09c6fc743c87e862042edd5d5&id=4164a444d6&e=d1bb241e3d>, 
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.

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