Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
Because every American
should have access
to broadband Internet.
Internet
Innovation
Alliance
The Internet Innovation Alliance is a broad-based coalition of business and non-profit organizations that aim to ensure every American, regardless of race, income or geography, has access to the critical tool that is broadband Internet. The IIA seeks to promote public policies that support equal opportunity for universal broadband availability and adoption so that everyone, everywhere can seize the benefits of the Internet - from education to health care, employment to community building, civic engagement and beyond.
Community
The leaders and supporters
of IIA
Featured MembersMore
Library
Browse IIA's reference center for the latest stats, facts and studies
Research
Broadband Fact Book
Easy to find, byte-sized data
Start-Up Savings
Infographic
10 Benefits of Health IT
Infographic
How Broadband Helps Rural Communities
Infographic
10 Ways Being Online Saves You Money
Cost savings report
Issues
Achieving Universal Broadband
A state by state guide
The National Broadband Plan
A roadmap to America's future
The Digital Divide
Addressing the digital divide
Jobs and Investment
Broadband enables job creation
More
March Madness in BytesActivities
Learn about IIA's many outreach events
Petition
Sign the PetitionEvents
Internet Past & Future
Back to School Webinar
Telepsychiatry Webinar
IIA Broadband Symposium
IIA Internet AcademyPress Room
Read past and current stories about the IIA
For Immediate Release
Press ReleasesIn The News
The Podium
IIA's constantly updated blog on all things broadband and technology
Fresh Bytes
Most Recent PostsTop Categories
fcc (687)
mobile broadband (362)
broadband access (264)
net neutrality (240)
spectrum (239)
Library
Broadband Fact Book
Here you'll find convenient research items culled from the best broadband data sources. If you need to find bite-sized talking points on a tight deadline, you're in the right place. We've already done the hard part for you!
Research Area Network Infrastructure
Reported operational cell sites deployed by the responding carriers were 283,385, up a record 30,299 sites (12.0%)
– from 253,086 cell sites reported as of December 2010, and up 10.3% from June 2011’s 256,920 sites.
Additional Investment Requirements May Well Reach $350 Billion
The FCC broadband task force suggested that the additional investment requirements, including wiring every household with fiber, may well reach $350 billion.
College Towns Are Some of the Best Connected Cities in the United States
According to Akamai’s State of the Internet report, college towns are some of the best connected cities in the United States, with Berkeley, CA, Chapel Hill, NC, Stanford, CA, Durham, NC and Ithaca, NY leading the pack. The remaining cities in the top 10 are Ann Arbor, MI, College Station, TX, Urbana, IL, Cambridge, MA and University Park, PA.
Japan Features Nearly Half of the World’s Fastest Cities
According to Akamai’s State of the Internet report, nearly half (48) of the 100 fastest cities (average measured connection speeds) are in Japan and over a fifth (21) are in the United States.
Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households
Cable companies are now rolling out technology that offers 50 mbps to 48.6 million U.S. households, according to a January research report by SNL Kagan.
In 2008…fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%
According to the FCC, DSL connections were up 3% in 2008 to 30 million, while fiber to the home had the biggest jump at 56%.
Fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections were up 10% in 2008
According to the FCC, fixed-service high-speed Internet access connections (by the high speed definition of 768 Kbps downstream and more than 200 upstream) were up 10% in 2008 to 77 million, but that was down from the 17% increase the year before.
The United States spends about 2 percent of GDP per year on infrastructure investment
(this includes federal, state and local, and private sector spending) compared to about 5 percent in Europe and 9 percent in China.
The FCC has found that broadband is available in 100 percent of zip codes in the United States, service remains relatively scarce in those zip codes with very low population densities.
Analysts expect that wired broadband internet access availability will plateau and reach about 95% of homes in the United States by 2015 while more than 69% of households will subscribe by 2015.
