Why Your City Needs Broadband

Digitally connecting one person with another is powerful in itself, but connecting entire communities in the United States and around the world is truly transformative. Broadband, specifically, has the potential to give Internet users access to information that can inspire action, changing the way people learn, do business and help each other.

At the 2012 Social Good Summit in September, Ericsson CEO Hans Vestberg spoke about the rapidly growing enterprise of broadband. "Today, [there are] 6.3 million mobile subscriptions in the world, 1 million broadband subscriptions in the world. Thats just going to blow the next five years. [By] 2017? 5 billion mobile broadband subscriptions,"…
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