What do we want broadband competition to accomplish?

[Commentary] On October 30, Blair Levin delivered a speech, Achieving Bandwidth Abundance: The Three Policy Levers for Intensifying Broadband Competition, to an Internet Society conference. This week, we're providing excerpts of the speech. The highest priority for government broadband competition policy, Blair writes, ought to be to lower input costs for adjacent market competition and network upgrades. In short, we want competition to help move us from today’s world, where the dominant business model is how to allocate bandwidth scarcity, to the world we need, which is competition over who can best deploy bandwidth abundance.