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# The Internet: More Than Digital Voice or High-Definition Television
- URL: https://broadbandbreakfast.com/the-internet-more-than-digital-voice-or-high-definition-television/
- Published: 2009-05-05T04:50:32.000Z
- Updated: 2026-03-11T06:41:40.000Z
- Description: DALLAS, May 4, 2009 – Broadband is and must be more than better-quality voice signals, higher-definition television, and more digital products bundled together, internet visionary David Isenberg said at the Broadband Properties conference here.
- Author: Drew Clark
- Tags: Broadband's Impact, NTIA, Recovery Act, Weekly Report, Amazon.com, AT&T, Bell Labs, Broadband Properties, David Isenberg, eBay, ESA, Facebook, Fiber to the Home Council, Joe Savage, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-02-01 10:30, #added-preview-divider

### From BroadbandCensus.com Weekly Report

DALLAS, May 4, 2009 – Broadband is and must be more than better-quality voice signals, higher-definition television, and more digital products bundled together, internet visionary David Isenberg said at the Broadband Properties conference here.

In a keynote address during the three-day conference last week, Isenberg – creator of the annual Freedom to Connect conference – attempted to take “the 30,000 foot view about why the work that we do is important.”

To Isenberg, Broadband needs to be about more than duct-work and fiber-optic splices and electrical engineering  
protocols. It must include person-to-person communications. In short, broadband needs to be about the Internet.

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