Pike & Fisher’s annual broadband summit just concluded and you can click here for the Hands Off white paper, “Net Neutrality Regulation Will Hinder Broadband Deployment.” An excerpt:

“The Internet is at the beginning of a remarkable transformation: the long-awaited convergence of television, video, and the Net. Two years ago, not a single major television network offered viewers the chance to stream programming over the Net. Today they all do. In early 2005, YouTube didn’t exist. Today, YouTube sends a staggering 1,000 gigabytes of data every second, or nearly 300 billion GBs each month.

“Given the obvious need for huge new investment to keep up the amount of data being pushed onto the network, the inevitable question must be raised: Who will pay for all these improvements?

We’re at the summit now. More’s coming.