On May 5, 2009, the Silicon Flatirons Center and the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) brought together leading individuals from the telecommunications industry, academia, and public interest community to discuss the state of broadband competition policy. The discussion touched on a number of topics, which fell under the broad questions of what policy goals should guide broadband policy and what institutional strategies are best positioned to advance them. The roundtable left three questions on the table for further discussion. First, as to the nature of broadband competition, the level of competition and the role of next generation wireless networks were questions about which the participants either remained uncertain or had different opinions. Second, the roundtable participants did not achieve consensus on the optimal nature of network management. Finally, there was no consensus on what strategy should be used to guarantee that broadband providers continue to provide robust and growing levels of basic best efforts access to the public Internet.
