Tyler Dixon

Can Broadband Save the World?
- Stuart N. Brotman (300 articles)
- Challenge to purpose this question ….. Its possible
- Julius Genokowski Chairman of FCC
o If we don’t act we face real risk to our competitors
- 52nd national broadband plan in the world (194 countries in world)
o Dominican Republic- Digital Literacy (Key focus)
o Finland – Every Citizen has 1 Megabit of Broadband
o Thailand – Meaningful Broadband
- What is Broadband
o High Speed
o Multitasking
o Fast Uploading and Downloading
- The more people connected the more value we will have in the broadband
- Broadband Network Technologies
o Optical Fiber – Wireless Technologies (WiFi, WiMAX) – Copper/digital Subscriber Line (DSL) – Cabele Modems – Satellites – Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
- “Satellites have helped bring broadband around the world most relevant way to bring broadband to the rest of the world”
- Applications to Devices to Networks (Repeat)
Is Faster Better?
US is Between 15-18 in the world in National Broadband
North America has 57% have Broadband Adoption and average speed of 3792
Potential Reach
• 500 million which is less than 5% of the world
New question: HOW can broadband save the world?
Access – Adoption – Impact
1/3 of the world has no interest in the Internet or broadband at all
386 million have a disability and broadband can have a huge effect on the impact on these disabilities.
• Motor
• Visual
• Speech
• Hearing
3 billion ppl live on less than 2.50 a day and 805 live on less than 10 dollars a day
A 10% increase in broadband penetration can increase gross domestic product by an average of 1.3 %
Mohamnd yunad

India only uses cash, no online payments, stand in line to pay money.

Health Care –
Global Burdens of Disease
Less than 30% of the world has access to traditional Us medicines.
Remote monitoring and treatments and we can save millions of dollars.
Future: all vitial signs from your phone just like email.
Weightloss, and sleep, glucose is all able to be monitored
Handheld Ultrasound will replace the stethoscope
“We see the future is here”
Education, Energy Management, Public safety
(Fewer than 1% can find the energy we are using immediately)

Accelerating the impact
Suggestion: 2/3 of the worlds population will live in cities.
19 cities in the world
20 million people
In the 21 century
NYC and LA only US cities

The millennials are the key to the success of broadband
Private Enterprise – rely on private sector even contries who rely on government sector are coming around to the private sector
30% not interested how do we get them interested? Korea and Dominican Republic are highly interested in just getting their citizens interested
Universal Service Fund – 1st around to get telephone service to all citizens now can use for broadband…Only 4% of our country cannot get broadband
Example: 98% can get cable and only 66% use it / pay for it.
Built into our education system not only K-12 but at educational and senior citizen centers then we will close the gap of intrest and meduiums.

the best website from this discussion that I found was on the 19/20/21. It is extreamly interesting.