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costs dramatically increases the cost of deployment.

Other outside plant costs, including pole attach-

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ments, also drive deployment gap.

Deployment gaps for access to advanced, high-

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speed broadband occur in the small business mar-

ket marketplace, in rural areas, and to consumers in

many residential neighborhoods across the nation.

Television Set-Top Box Innovation Gap

Hinders convergence, utilization, and adoption

The convergence of video, TV, and internet proto-

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col-based technology is creating a new broadband

medium that could drive adoption and utilization.

Lack of devices is a major barrier for adoption: 99

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percent of U.S. households have a TV versus 76

percent with PCs.

Retail navigation device and set–top-box market

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competition has not emerged, limiting innovation.

Personal Data Gap

Users need to control their own information

Personal data is increasingly digitized and moving

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to the internet “cloud.”

Users have little control over their personal informa-

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tion.

Ensuring privacy and security will enable a new

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generation of applications and improve top national

priorities that would benefit by secure but acces-

sible personal information.

Harnessing broadband to achieve key national pur-

poses (better health care, education, government per-

formance and civic engagement, economic opportunity,

public safety, improvements in energy conservation

and environmental protection) requires better con-

nectivity, although the level of connectivity necessary

depends on the nature of the institutions and applica-

tions.

Achieving these goals, however, will also require

a broadband ecosystem that provides people with

training and support in digital skills, ready access to

computers and mobile devices, better applications,

better security, and other needs. Further, the ecosystem

requires that incentives be aligned to encourage the use

of broadband applications; today, there are a number

of rules that discourage the use of broadband.

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