New broadband report: End of scarcity, open architecture, and broadband competition | Speed Matters – Internet Speed Test

The latest report from two leading broadband research organizations -- the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation and the Silicon Flatirons Center -- summarizes a discussion among leading broadband experts on institutional strategies to advance broadband policy goals. The roundtable, which included Dick Lynch, Chief Technology Officer of Verizon, was moderated by Phil Weiser and Rob Atkinson.

The discussion converged on some important points. There was considerable agreement on the value of using targeted subsidies -- such as those in the broadband stimulus program -- to provide for ubiquitous broadband for a basic level of access, the need to ensure robust middle mile capability; and the potentially misleading nature of "peak" broadband speeds...