Retail households pay up to 100 times more for their internet connection than what their Internet Service Providers (ISPs) pay for the same connection. The problem is that ISPs control the distribution channel of bandwidth from Internet Exchanges. ISPs acquire wholesale bandwidth for as low as $0.50 Gbps and then sell that same bandwidth for $50-$100 to End-Users. DAWN takes advantage of recent advancements in Fixed-Wireless broadband to collapse the spread of internet bandwidth prices from distribution centers to end-users. DAWN does this by creating a system that maximizes high-performance bandwidth, scalable infrastructure, and decentralization. This report surveys the broadband internet landscape, examines the DAWN protocol in detail, and establishes a new vision for the internet enabled by DePIN.
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