Schrier Open Internet FCC Panel 04 28 10

Schrier Open Internet FCC Panel 04 28 10 - Presentation Transcript

1. Preserving an Open Internet – a City Government Perspective
   Bill Schrier
   Chief Technology Officer, City of Seattle
   FCC Workshop – Seatle – 28 April 2010
   
2. Seattle: Innovation Leader
   Boeing ~ Jets
   Microsoft ~ software
   Starbucks ~ coffee
   Amazon ~ e-retailing
   T-Mobile ~ wireless
   Web and Internet
   Pacific Rim
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3. City 2006 Task Force
   Within a decade, all of Seattle will have affordable access to an interactive, open, broadband network capable of supporting applications and services
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   using integrated layers of voice, video and data, with sufficient capacity to meet the ongoing information, communications and entertainment needs of the city’s citizens, businesses, institutions and municipal government.”
   
4. It’s about the Duopoly
   Cable: Broadstripe & Comcast
   Phone: Qwest
   Competition?
   Seattle HHI = 4089
   (HHI above 1800 is “limited”)
   Control of network and content
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   HHI = Herfindahl-Hirschman index, the most commonly used measure of market concentration or market competition used by the U.S.
   (DOJ) when reviewing potential mergers.
   
5. It’s About the Size of the Pipe
   National Plan – 100 squared
   Fiber to the Premise
   Open Access possible
   Multiple competing providers
   Local intra nets
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6. Economy depends upon Neutrality
   Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks
   Googe, Cozi, Real Networks
   Neighborhood and Home businesses
   Public Engagement
   It’s About the Businesses who Use the Pipe
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7. 2009 Seattle Access Report
   New media – blogs and video
   First Gen Americans
   Skype and YouTube
   Multiple languages
   98118 diversity
   It’s about the People who use the Pipe
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8. It’s about the People who use the Pipe
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   • 88% home computers
   • 84% Internet
   • 74% beyond dial-up
   • Substantial divide
   • Seniors
   • People of color
9. Two-way HDTV and more
   Telework, commuting
   Tele-education, medicine
   Reduce transportation
   Reduce greenhouse gas
   Reduce use of oil
   It’s about the Nation and the Planet
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10. Rules important now
    Much more important in the future
    Economy
    Innovation
    Quality of Life
    Preservation of nation, planet
    Bottom Line
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