Will there be more investment in broadband deployment?
Treating broadband as a utility would "reverse years of settled precedent, dry up investment in broadband deployment and network upgrades, and result in protracted litigation and marketplace uncertainty," said Michael Powell, president of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, and former head of the FCC, in a statement.
We still need, as Bytes editor Hal Singer has noted, to increase the returns on investment in broadband deployment.
More than that, the country wanted to leverage what would have been the world's largest single investment in solar deployment to export power to Europe.
The U.S. needs bi-partisan policies that encourage investment in the deployment of 21st century networks that will spur innovation, create jobs, and jump start the middle class economy.
I like to hope, though, that we're all finally beginning to realize that we'll all benefit tenfold from our collective investment in, and deployment of, real security.
With that said, Sprint does not believe that a light touch application of Title II, including appropriate forbearance, would harm the continued investment in, and deployment of, mobile broadband services.
The State gave the rate increase, claiming it was for massive investments in the deployment of fiber optics and that the company was in need of financial relief.
Overall, a cloud computing model aims to provide benefits in terms of lesser up-front investment in infrastructure during deployment, lower operating costs, higher scalability, ease of access through the Web, and reduced business risks and maintenance expenses [8].
Considering that the unit investment cost of a Node B rounds 135000 euros, and that the investment in the cell deployment is about 60%, [33] of the total network investment in a mobile network we can estimate the total network investment for the four cases presented.
