US National Broadband Plan

Susan EstradaPresident, FirstMile.US

About MeBroadband, Internet, Telecom

CERFnet (the Calif. One)

Infrastructure (Transport)

Uses (Content)

Governance

Users

•Technologies Used •Service Providers•Suppliers•Right-of-Way Owners

•Internet•Trans-sector•Private Closed Networks

U.S. Broadband Ecosystem at a Glance

•FCC•Federal Courts•Congress•National/Regional Security Agencies•State PUCs•State Courts•State Governments•Municipal Governments•Standards Organizations•Privacy Bodies•Transsector Federal/Regional Regulators•Consumer Bodies

Let’s take1 minute

30 second look at

User-Centric Broadband:what users really want from their

broadband connection

One Communications Portal-the pipe –

Do we really need more than one per home?

Devices Galore

Things To Do

No wires in their homes

and business

Mobilitywhenever, where-ever, whatever

And most of all

Our Hope for the NBP was…

• A high-level, exciting vision that• Captured user imagination and

enthusiasm and• Provided incentive for innovative thinking

through• Open infrastructure with a myriad of

opportunities for competition and provisioning of current and emerging broadband transsector uses.

Beg for a 100 Meg

• The NBP has lots of details. – It’s scary. – It’s complicated. – It’s inaccessible to the general public.– It’s guaranteed employment for telecom

lawyers.