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Mobile Future Publications
Mobile Ability: The Transformational Impact of Wireless Innovation for People with Disabilities
For many Americans, today's fast-emerging combination of robust hardware, state-of-the-art wireless networks and innovative, diverse applications can allow devices to achieve impressive levels of personal customization that can be tailored to meet any individual's unique needs and preferences.
Welcome to the Mobile Future: How Wireless Innovation is Transforming Our Economy & Our Lives
The wireless sector’s success is a model for the 21st century—powerfully demonstrating what a collaborative approach between consumers, policymakers and a competitive and innovative industry can achieve for the nation.
Hispanic Broadband Access: Making the Most of our Mobile, Connected Future
As the U.S. develops a national broadband strategy, much is at stake for American consumers, our country’s economy, as well as future innovation and its many social benefits. Complex issues from infrastructure deployment to digital literacy to consumer-friendly tax reform all play into U.S. efforts to close the digital divide and usher in a new era of innovation and opportunity. Equally important to ensuring these benefits are shared throughout our society is a deeper understanding of the unique needs, challenges and connected behavior of diverse Americans.
The Employment and Economic Impacts of Network Neutrality Regulation: An Empirical Analysis
New network neutrality regulations proposed by the FCC could slow the growth of the broadband sector, potentially affecting as many as 1.5 million jobs, both union and non-union, by the end of the decade.
Engineering Implications for Wireless Networks
As the Federal Communications Commission considers applying “net neutrality” regulations to the wireless Internet, it has sought broad public comment on the implications of such rules for consumers and the networks which support them. The imposition of any such new rules will have a variety of impacts across the Internet ecosystem and particularly on wireless network operations and capabilities. Thus, it is critically important to the future of the mobile Internet that the FCC conduct a detailed and clear‐eyed assessment of how the proposed new regulations will impact the engineering, operational, and technological requirements of current and next generation wireless networks.
Why the iPhone Won’t Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote Its Successor
A myriad of revolutions have occurred in the mobile handset market over the past twenty years. Although casual observers have often claimed that a particular innovation was here to stay, they commonly are proven wrong by unforeseen developments in this fast-changing marketplace. Handset partnerships, which encourage risk taking, increase choice, and frequently lower prices, should be applauded by the government. In contrast, government regulation that would require forced sharing of a successful break-through technology is likely to stifle innovation and hurt consumer welfare.
Wireless Facts
- U.S. Subscribers with broadband access on mobile devices went from 3M in ‘06 to 73M in ‘08
- Wireless data traffic is expected to grow 100 times faster than voice traffic over the next 10 years
- 1 in 3 African Americans and Hispanic Americans use a mobile device to access the Internet daily
- Connected mobile smartphones today generate 30 times the data traffic of basic-feature cell phones
- The mobile technology sector today employs nearly 2.7 million Americans
- The coming wave of mobile Internet connectivity will integrate 10 billion people.