1. Crafting Broadband and Spectrum Policy To Serve the “Public Good”
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2. Broadband????

3. Comparison of Download Times of “The Matrix” DVD
To put the speed of what we’re talking about in context here, over a typical 56 kbps dialup connection, it would take 171 hours to download the DVD “The Matrix”. Over a slightly higher traditional ISDN connection, it would take almost 75 hours. Using DSL or a cable modem, it takes 25 hours. And, over a T-1, it still would take 6.37 hours. But, over Interent2, it takes 30 seconds. This difference in speeds becomes pretty meaningful when you consider advanced applications like remote instrumentation, remote surgery, virtual consultations and diagnosis, and even real time foreign exchanges which require no delay or degradation of audio or video to be effective.

4. We Need to Make Our Voices Heard
Broadband Deployment
Security/Privacy
Innovation/Regulation
Intellectual Property in a Network Environment
Telecommunications Act of 2006

5. Though we cannot avoid being colored by our surroundings …
we MUST think outside the box!

7. Crafting Broadband and Spectrum Policy to Serve the “Public Good”
Jim Baller, Principal, The Baller Herbst Law Group
Harold Feld, Associate Director, Media Access Project
Richard B. Geltman, General Counsel, American Public Power Association
Timothy Lance, President and Chair, NYSERNet, and Distinguished Service Professor and Chair, University at Albany
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