Brian, nice job btw. -RickG On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Brian Webster < bwebs...@wirelessmapping.com> wrote:
> Marlon, > Read this take rate brief I wrote with one of the data companies I > work > with. It will take you about 10 minutes. It goes in to specific detail of > how the study was conducted and the sources of the data. It was written for > the 10 minute managers of the world. The key to being able to come up with > the numbers was having the data at the census block level in the first > place. Prior to July of this year there were no sources that I am aware of. > The only information drawn from the form 477 is the total number of > residential subscribers by state. The number of households without access > to > broadband has no relationship to the 477 data. That should be spelled out > in > the report. > > > > Thank You, > Brian Webster > > -----Original Message----- > From: wireless-boun...@wispa.org [mailto:wireless-boun...@wispa.org]on > Behalf Of Marlon K. Schafer > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:32 PM > To: WISPA General List > Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ > > > OK, as I understand that the report is based upon the 477 data? > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jack Unger > To: WISPA General List > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:41 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ > > > Marlon, > > See the attached report. Go to Table 2 on page 11. Look at the last cell > in the lower, right-hand corner. > > jack > > > Marlon K. Schafer wrote: > I still don't buy that number in the first place. I wish I knew more about > how Brian came up with it. > > What % of rural households does that work out to be? > marlon > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jack Unger" <jun...@ask-wi.com> > To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> > Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:27 AM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] From Today's WSJ > > > Sorry but this article (accidentally or intentionally) misses or (more > likely) ignores the point that 24 or more million occupied American > households have no access to broadband. The WSJ is merely a mouthpiece > (especially now that Rupurt Murdoch owns it) for the telcos. > > jack > > > Jeff Broadwick wrote: > > http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870365210457465250160837655 > 2.ht > ml?mod=WSJ_Opinion_AboveLEFTTop > > > > * REVIEW & OUTLOOK > * JANUARY 20, 2010 > > A 'National Broadband Plan' > One more solution in search of a problem. > > > The Federal Communications Commission recently told Congress that it will > miss a February deadline for delivering a "national broadband plan" and > requested a one-month extension. If it keeps missing deadlines, nearly > everyone in the U.S. might soon have high-speed Internet. > > As part of last year's stimulus package, Congress asked the FCC for a > plan > to ensure that everybody in the country has access to broadband. That's a > worthy goal, but the idea of a government plan is based on a false > presumption that the spread of broadband is stalled. The reality is that > broadband adoption continues apace, as does the quality and speed of > Internet connections. > > Between 2000 and 2008, residential broadband subscribers grew to 80 > million > from five million, according to a study by Bret Swanson of Entropy > Economics. Broadband penetration among active Internet users at home is > 94%, > and nearly 99% of U.S. workers connect to the Internet with broadband. A > typical cable modem today is 10 times faster than a decade ago. Wireless > bandwidth growth per capita has been no less impressive, showing a > 500-fold > increase since 2000. > > Meanwhile, U.S. information and communications technology investment in > 2008 > alone totalled $455 billion, or 22% of all U.S. capital investment. > Nominal > capital investment in telecom between 2000 and 2008 was more than $3.5 > trillion. > > Those who favor more government control of the Internet ignore this > private > progress and point to international rankings. According to OECD > estimates, > the U.S. ranks 15th in the world in broadband penetration per capita. But > because household sizes differ from country to country, and the U.S. has > relatively large households, the per capita figures can be misleading. A > better way to gauge wired broadband connections is per household, not per > person. By that measure the U.S. ranks somewhere between 8th and 10th. > > Such comparisons will soon be moot in any case because broadband > penetration > is growing rapidly in all OECD countries. The Technology Policy Institute > notes that "at the current rates of broadband adoption the U.S. is behind > the leaders only by a number of months, and all wealthy OECD countries > will > reach a saturation point within the next few years." > > Even the Obama Justice Department seems to reject the broadband market > failure thesis. "In any industry subject to significant technological > change, it is important that the evaluation of competition be > forward-looking rather than based on static definitions of products and > services," said the Antitrust Division in a January 4 filing to the FCC. > "In > the case of broadband services, it's clear that the market is shifting > generally in the direction of faster speeds and additional mobility." > > Justice concludes that while "enacting some form of regulation to prevent > certain providers from exercising monopoly control may be tempting . . . > care must be taken to avoid stifling the infrastructure investments > needed > to expand broadband access." > > No matter, the default position of the Obama Administration is that > little > useful happens without government, so the FCC is busy planning. Chairman > Julius Genachowski is sympathetic to net neutrality regulations that > would > prevent Internet service providers from using differentiated pricing to > manage Web traffic. Liberal interest groups like Public Knowledge and > Harvard's Berkman Center for the Internet and Society are urging the > agency > to reinstitute "open access" mandates that would force cable operators > and > phone companies to share their infrastructure with rivals at > government-set > prices. > > The irony is that the private investment and innovation of recent years > have > occurred in the wake of the FCC rolling back similar rules that held back > telecom in the 1990s. Consumers continue to have access to more and more > broadband services, while Google, YouTube, iTunes, Facebook and Netflix > originated in the U.S. > > Doesn't the Obama Administration have enough to do than mess with a part > of > the U.S. economy that is working well? > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Jeff > > > Jeff Broadwick > Sales Manager, ImageStream > 800-813-5123 x106 (US/Can) > +1 574-935-8484 x106 (Int'l) > +1 574-935-8488 (Fax) > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > WISPA Wants You! 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