Leadership
Rick Boucher
Honorary Chairman
Bruce P. Mehlman
Co-Chairman
Jamal Simmons
Co-Chairman
Tracey Sawicki
Executive Director
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.
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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.