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in innovative content and services.
Consumers would want to use those
services and would need better
broadband to do so – and that in turn
would give ISPs a reason to invest
further in their networks.
THE POWER OF THE
GIGABIT
Business leaders said that deploying
gigabit service would encourage
economic growth and facilitate
improvements in education, health
care, public safety and other key policy
areas. Tey believed gigabit service
could make the diference between
economic decline and a vibrant future.
For 20 years, the Internet has
disrupted markets by eliminating
intermediaries such as record stores
and travel agencies. Connecticut
companies, such as Norwalk-based
Priceline.com and Bristol-based ESPN,
have successfully pioneered some of
those disruptive models and forever
transformed their industries – but now
businesses in the state were falling
behind because they could not keep
up with the speed of disintermediated
commerce.
For example, the manager of a
New Haven company, a subsidiary of
a French corporation with operations
across the globe that manufactures
parts for Boeing and Airbus, requires
high-speed, reliable broadband to start
production automatically in response
to a signal from a Boeing computer.
Boeing maintains just-in-time inventory
across its international manufacturing
footprint, so the New Haven parts
manufacturer must be prepared to start
a production run at any time of the day
or night and transmit a live video feed
showing the progress of the job.
Both for reliability and for
bandwidth, this manufacturer needs
a high-speed fber connection – yet
despite being located half a mile from
telephone company headquarters, the
company had to wait 10 months to get
that connection at a wildly exorbitant
rate. Tis story was unapologetically
Connecticut business leaders said that
they experienced long waits for the fber
connections they needed and paid high
prices for those connections.
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