Net Neutrality Regulation Will Hinder Broadband Deployment
Christopher Wolf
Proskauer Rose LLP
June 12, 2008

• America could add 1.2 million jobs and $500 billion to the economy as a result of widespread broadband deployment.
• Network neutrality regulations have the potential to not only stymie the continued growth of the Internet and broadband penetration, but to increase costs and degrade customer services.
• Government should encourage investment through a hands off approach, the government can play its part in ensuring that these opportunities are provided to all Americans, with broadband access that is affordable and attainable, irrespective of geographic limitations.

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Surviving the Digital Home
Yankee Group
April 2008

• Telecommuting will become more common as employees seek to balance their work and home lives, and create more value for their businesses.
• Whether working full-time from home or the occasional home workday, employees will use digital home-based technology solutions to maintain the collaborative workplace dynamics required in today’s global economy.
• Collaboration technologies, including high-bandwidth video communications in the digital home-office environment, will start to alleviate some of the isolation felt by home-office workers. A byproduct of home-office working, employees will seek more solutions to minimize the negative social impacts of anywhere working.

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State Efforts to Expand Broadband Access
National Governors Association
May 20, 2008

• Broadband communication is radically transforming the way in which Americans use the Internet by providing the ability to access voice, video, and data through a single network.
• There are benefits in having access to educational institutions or telemedicine applications through the Internet.
• The study recommends a variety of successful approaches to spur broadband in the states.

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The Telehealth Promise: Better Health Care and Cost Savings for the 21st Century
Alexander H. Vo, PhD
AT&T Center for Telehealth Research and Policy
Electronic Health Network University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas
May 2008

• The integration of telehealth into the American health care system can offer unparalleled access to high quality care to every citizen no matter where they live.
• Widespread implementation of telehealth could save the U.S. health care system $4.28 billion just from reducing transfers of patients from one location, such as a nursing home, for medical exams at hospitals, physicians’ offices, or other caregiver locations.  

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Scarborough Research
The Need For Internet Speed
April 15, 2008

• Broadband penetration increased more than 300 percent since 2002.
• San Francisco is the top local U.S. market for broadband penetration according to Scarborough. Sixty-two percent of adults in San Francisco live in a household that has a broadband Internet connection. Other top broadband markets include Boston and San Diego. In these cities, 61 percent of adults have a broadband connection in their household.
• Broadband subscribers are more likely than other Internet users to be engaged with Internet content. They are 30 percent more likely than total Internet users to have downloaded podcasts during the past month, 29 percent more likely to have downloaded/watched TV programs and 27 percent more likely to have downloaded/listened to other audio clips during this timeframe.
• Broadband subscribers are also nine percent more likely than other Internet users to have visited a newspaper website during the past week.

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Explaining International Broadband Leadership
The Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
By Robert D. Atkinson, Daniel K. Correa, Julie A. Hedlund
May 1, 2008

• The United States is behind in broadband deployment, speed and price but we can learn from other countries.
• Robust and effective national broadband policies are important for the United States to improve.
• Broadband providers need the economic incentives to invest in broadband infrastructure both in rural and urban areas, and give consumers the incentives to subscribe to broadband.   Broadband is important to bring to all Americans.

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The Economic Impact of Stimulating Broadband Nationally
Connected Nation
February 21, 2008

Adopting a national policy to stimulate the deployment of broadband in underserved areas of the U.S. could have dramatic and far-reaching
economic impacts. For instance, just a seven percentage point increase in broadband adoption could result in:

•   $92 billion through an additional 2.4 million jobs per year created
• $662 million saved per year in reduced healthcare costs
• $6.4 billion per year in mileage saving from unnecessary driving
• $18 million in carbon credits associated with 3.2 billion fewer lbs of CO2 emissions per year in the United States
• $35.2 billion in value from 3.8 billion more hours saved per year from accessing broadband at home
• $134 billion per year in total direct economic impact of accelerating broadband across the United States

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The Economics Of Product Line Restrictions With An Application To The Network Neutrality Debate
Benjamin Hermalin and Michael Katz, Competition Policy Center, Institute Of Business And Economic Research, University Of California, Berkeley
2006

• The study addresses the net neutrality call for limits to levels of service available by providers.
• These restrictions can harm consumer’s ability to purchase the service that best fits their needs.

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The Economics Of Net Neutrality
Robert Hahn and Scott Wallsten
AEI-Brookings Joint Center For Regulatory Studies
April 2006

• Mandating net neutrality would be likely to reduce economic welfare. Instead, the government should create competition in the broadband market by liberalizing more spectrum and reducing entry barriers created by certain local regulations.
  Hands off the internet is a good policy.

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Costs Of Neutral Unmanaged IP Networks
Richard N. Clarke
May 2006

• A model of pure neutrality would be extremely expensive for the typical consumer.
• Regulations will increase the average users’ cost for internet access.

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