Schrier Open Internet FCC Panel 04 28 10

Preserving an Open Internet – a City Government Perspective
Bill Schrier
Chief Technology Officer, City of Seattle
FCC Workshop – Seatle – 28 April 2010

Seattle: Innovation Leader
Boeing ~ Jets
Microsoft ~ software
Starbucks ~ coffee
Amazon ~ e-retailing
T-Mobile ~ wireless
Web and Internet
Pacific Rim
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Bill Schrier – FCC Open Internet Panel

City 2006 Task Force
Within a decade, all of Seattle will have affordable access to an interactive, open, broadband network capable of supporting applications and services
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using integrated layers of voice, video and data, with sufficient capacity to meet the ongoing information, communications and entertainment needs of the city’s citizens, businesses, institutions and municipal government.”

It’s about the Duopoly
Cable: Broadstripe & Comcast
Phone: Qwest
Competition?
Seattle HHI = 4089
(HHI above 1800 is “limited”)
Control of network and content
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HHI = Herfindahl-Hirschman index, the most commonly used measure of market concentration or market competition used by the U.S.
(DOJ) when reviewing potential mergers.

It’s About the Size of the Pipe
National Plan – 100 squared
Fiber to the Premise
Open Access possible
Multiple competing providers
Local intra nets
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Economy depends upon Neutrality
Microsoft, Amazon, Starbucks
Googe, Cozi, Real Networks
Neighborhood and Home businesses
Public Engagement
It’s About the Businesses who Use the Pipe
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2009 Seattle Access Report
New media – blogs and video
First Gen Americans
Skype and YouTube
Multiple languages
98118 diversity
It’s about the People who use the Pipe
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It’s about the People who use the Pipe
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88% home computers
84% Internet
74% beyond dial-up
Substantial divide
Seniors
People of color

Two-way HDTV and more
Telework, commuting
Tele-education, medicine
Reduce transportation
Reduce greenhouse gas
Reduce use of oil
It’s about the Nation and the Planet
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Rules important now
Much more important in the future
Economy
Innovation
Quality of Life
Preservation of nation, planet
Bottom Line
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