Internet Innovation Alliance

The Internet Innovation Alliance's 19th anniversary will be our last. The coalition is shutting its digital doors, because is finally within sight.

But even though IIA is going offline, it is our hope that we will always stay connected.

✍️Congressman Rick Allen in The Washington Times:

The Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act "lacked necessary reforms to address the permitting and processing delays that are hampering deployment in our communities": https://bit.ly/3Bwzbf0

✍️IIA's Kim Keenan for TechCrunch:

"It’s time for the to guard against the unintended consequences of the ideal and keep its eye on the prize: Everyone in America needs now."

Read Kim's new opinion article: https://tcrn.ch/41Spwep

🗣️Bob Latta: “Broadband is not a Republican issue; it’s not a Democratic issue; it’s not an independent issue. It’s everybody’s issue, and that’s why it’s important that we get the job done.”

BRUCE MEHLMAN for Multichannel News: "Rural Americans, in particular, benefit from financial assistance that the ACP provides. In fact, the states with the highest program participation rates are red and rural, and two of the four states that have broken the million mark in total number of households enrolled in the ACP are Republican-led. Struggling farmers need broadband just as much as striving students in the inner city."

Red States Would Be Biggest Winners from Extending Affordable Connectivity Program President Biden should push to fully fund program in the next federal budget

"After using Zoom for the last couple years, 25 powerful female leaders gathered to talk about how women drive community improvement and that now is the time for them to throw their weight behind the push to connect every American to the internet...I was honored to lead this dynamic group of women in discussion and treasured toasting to broadband internet for all…18 years after the Internet Innovation Alliance was born with that very mission."

IIA Connected Roundtable: A Toast to Broadband Internet for All - Internet Innovation Alliance The Internet Innovation Alliance kicked off the fall with a continuation of our Connected Roundtable series, a salon luncheon dubbed the “T-Hive Tech Talk.” After using Zoom for...

It's our 18th birthday!! 🎂 IIA was launched on Sept. 23, 2004. We're celebrating with a look at our accelerating world. Check out our infographic below and find more on how the internet has transformed daily life here: https://bit.ly/3xO9y7U

"The time has finally come to require Silicon Valley giants to share an infinitesimal slice of their enormous profits to close the digital divide."

Read IIA Co-Chair Kim Keenan's new opinion piece for Multichannel News to learn more!

Senate Should Vote to End Big Tech's Free Ride on Universal Service Why it’s time for Congress to compel edge providers to do their bit to close the digital divide

Pricing for the most popular and highest-speed internet services continues to decline while value continues to increase, despite an filled with inflationary pressures: https://bit.ly/3Rlcml1

IIA Co-Chair Bruce Mehlman writing for Fortune:

"If the great buildout is to succeed, policymakers need to understand that appropriating the money is not the end, but merely the end of the beginning."

Read the full op-ed: https://bit.ly/3xb0eeN

✍️ IIA Co-Chair Bruce Mehlman for Fortune:

"If the great buildout is to succeed, policymakers need to understand that appropriating the money is not the end, but merely the end of the beginning. Only by partnering with private sector leaders, learning from local residents, and prioritizing bureaucratic flexibility over partisan ideology will we realize the objective."

This is America's broadband moment. Don't screw it up One of the best attributes of the United States–its rich diversity in geography and demography–is less great when it comes to federal infrastructure.