Connected Nation Case Study

Carr explains that the net has become essential to internet users work, school, or social lives, and often with all three. And there are, of course, many people who do not use the internet at all, either because they can’t afford it or because they don’t want to. The scope of its use unprecedented, even by the standards of the mass media of the twentieth century. The net commands our attention with far greater insistency than our television

Intended Audience: My ideal audience for this speech would be managers in Information Technology tasked with improving technology infrastructures. The topic is also beneficial for any person who would has a little network setup at home.

In the past decade, the number of internet users in the United States and worldwide has grown dramatically with an estimated 218 million US citizens having

The digital divide that is prominent in today’s society is sky rocketing daily, especially in Canada. Unfortunately, Internet will never be a free service and we never expect it to be; but, Coalition member ACORN Canada, a national organization of low- and moderate-income families, is calling on the CRTC to mandate that $10 per month high-speed internet packages be made available to families and individuals living below Statistics Canada's low-income measure (Goodyear, 2016). Some solutions consist of higher-earning Canadians paying a little extra on their own internet bills - about a dollar a month - to subsidize access for those who can't afford it. (Goodyear, 2016). I personally believe that this solution is risky because it would unfair if other Canadians have to pay

The chance that someone will adopt broadband Internet is directly related to their income. For example, those that earn $25,000 are 35.8 percent likely to adopt broadband as opposed to those that make more than $100,000 who are 94.1 percent likely to adopt broadband (United States). These statistics show that those living on low-income are unlikely to adopt broadband Internet. The adoption of broadband can also be directly traced to other economic figures including the average income of states. One example, “Arkansas ranked 49th with a 43 percent subscribership rate. The state ranks 50th in median annual income, at $38,600” (Dunbar). As opposed to “Connecticut which is second in broadband at 72 percent, and second in income at $65,958” (Dunbar). Those states with low broadband adoption rates are also the ones with the lower incomes. This shows a clear link between income and broadband adoption. One final example will show the link between adoption and poverty within a city. The Bridgeport MSA is the most connected in America but it is also first in unequal distribution of wealth. “Wealthier households subscribe at a rate of 80 percent to 100 percent, while low-income areas of the city, some exceeding a 50 percent poverty rate, subscribe at a rate of 40 percent to 60 percent” (Dunbar). So, income and broadband adoption are closely related throughout the country. The

As described previously, zero-rate offers are profit centers for companies yet are a restrictive form of “network discrimination” — it deliberately sets up a system where users receive usage speed based on location or unfixed caps. (Estelle Masse, 2016) Zero rating is about controlling the user’s experience over the provider’s network. It is still of our position to support net neutrality, as it pertains to the Internet and Mobile usage. At the local level MEPs have to educate constituents about the policy changes with “Roam Like at Home” and holding the NRA chapters responsible for intervening on issues that occur within its

During the time period under discussion from the Regan Revolution to our current President Obama, one major historical turning point was the creation of the Internet. This vast network of linked computers that allowed information to be shared easily and instantly, propelled the information technology of personal computers and cell phones forward at high speed. (Schultz, 2011) The ways that the Internet has changed life in the United States over the past two decades is vast. The economy has widely changed in this new age of technology, American companies reached overseas

The economic decline and slow job growth, many households have reduced their monthly spending. In 2008, vacant homes were at a record three million in the United States. Additionally, within the phone company industry, AT&T reported a 5.6% decline in landline usage in 2007. Verizon reported a decrease of 10.9% in 2009, while Qwest Communications had a 17% decrease in land line usage from March 2006 to March 2008. In the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (“Recovery Act”), Congress directed the Commission to create a national broadband plan by February 17, 2010, that seeks to “ensure that all people of the United States have access to broadband capability and establish benchmarks for meeting that goal.”1 (http://www.fcc.gov)

To being with, the pluses of increased high-speed internet are the bridging of the culture gap and the increased educational opportunities. The culture gap occurs everywhere from the different

As stated in the AOW article “, Nearly every single family that has enrolled in Internet Essentials say it has improved their children’s grades—an unimpeachable validation of the importance of home broadband.” This quote from the article is proof that Internet access can radically change lives! Who knows, these family’s children might’ve been failing their classes just because they didn’t have internet access. The quote also shows how important internet is in not only our daily life, but our educational lives as

Although many people say that “net neutrality has had no effect on the expansion of the internet”. In 2017 The Federal Communications Commission announced "For instance, several companies, including AT&T, Verizon, Frontier, and Alaska Communications either commenced or announced new deployments in 2017," the report concludes. "These new deployments are initial indicators that deployment is likely to accelerate again in part due to our recent efforts”. This tells us that companies are starting to accelerate the growth of their broadband networks to rural places in the United States. This is necessary due to people who have access to the internet have a higher achievement rate than people who did not. The Pew Research Center reported, “Roughly one-in-three adults with less than a high school education did not have access to the internet as a kid”. This is an astonishing statistic and net neutrality is stopping these companies from expanding so it is leaving some people in the dust with their education. Secondly, net neutrality slows investment by giving the companies no reason to invest in internet expansion because they cannot bring back the money that they put into the expansion. In 2017 wired.com did a report on internet expansion in rural areas and the report said: “investment in internet infrastructure declined 3 percent in 2015 and another 2 percent in

Imagine not having the option to depend on the internet. According to the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), “the internet became an ever-increasing part of the American economy, offering new and innovative changes in how we work, learn, and play, receive health care, create and enjoy entertainment, and communicate with one another” (Restoring Internet Freedom). The American people depend on the internet and its integration into our everyday lives. Businesses, because of internet dependency are employing and marketing products globally, hospitals are finding and sharing new innovations; helping patients live longer, and people are now connected with family, and friends around the world. The internet and its various rationales for dependency

have risen in Jefferson County regarded the broadband connection and whether or not users are

It’s the biggest fight of the year Muhammad Ali vs Mike Tyson. Two of the best heavy weight boxers of all time are preparing to go head to head in the ring. Which one do you choose? The one with the lightning fast speed or the one with heavy jabs. Now imagine your internet service providers going toe to toe. Comcast vs Time Warner cable. When you consider the amount of subscribers each of them has numbers show that Comcast 22.3 million which is twice the amount of consumers as Time Warner coming in at just 12 million.

The concept of network neutrality (more commonly referred to as net neutrality) has been a fixture of debates over United States telecommunications policy throughout the first decade of the twenty-first century. Based upon the principle that internet access should not be altered or restricted by the Internet Service Provider (ISP) one chooses to use, it has come to represent the hopes of those who believe that the internet still has the potential to radically transform the way in which we interact with both people and information, in the face of the commercial interests of ISPs, who argue that in order to sustain a competitive marketplace for internet provision, they must be allowed to differentiate their services. Whilst this debate has