The movement directly provisions to AT&T and Verizon, who must mostly be given up in rural areas and secondary and third-tier city fixed-line broadband deployment, disputing that existing, expensive wireless connectivity is “good enough”.
In Broadband the US ranks at world number 9 with 70 MBps downlink but most citizens in the US do not notice that download speed.
The US is listed at 46th in wireless download rate at 23 Mbps. If US wireless businesses were allowed and wanted to drop to 10 MBps and still be classed as broadband then the US would drop to a world ranking of 101 which is the same level of Nigeria.
A 2011 survey, directed jointly by Ericsson, Arthur D. Little and Chalmers University of Technology, in 33 OECD nations, quantifies the hidden impact of broadband speed, pointing that doubling the broadband speed for a market increases GDP by 0.3%. A 0.3 percent GDP increase in the OECD region is equal to USD 126 billion. This compares to more than one seventh of the average annual OECD growth rate in the last decade.
The research also shows that further doublings of rate can yield increase in excess of 0.3 percent e.g. quadrupling of rate equals 0.6 percent GDP growth motive Both broadband availability and speed are great drivers in an economy. Last year Ericsson and Arthur D. Little decided that for every 10 percentage time increase in broadband diffusion GDP increases by 1 percent.
Dropping from 25 Mbps to 10 Mbps would be a 0.4% drop in GDP growth.
This would be the reverse of making the US economy future ready.
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