Talkback
by Staff -- Multichannel News, 6/15/2009 2:00:00 AM
Separate Lanes for HD, Web
(RE: “Copps Brings on Levin to Coordinate Broadband Plan Development,” June 6): My comments to the FCC were as follows: Since part of Time Warner Cable’s rationale to start charging with metered Internet billing is that high Internet usage degrades its potential HD bandwidth availability, the FCC should mandate that anyone offering HD broadcast and cable content by coax or fiber-optic cable must provide a second fiber-optic line devoted exclusively to Internet customers. 1. This would effectively allow DOCSIS 3.0 downloads at over 200 mbps on the dedicated line. 2. This would force the telcos and cable companies to provide world-class Internet service instead of the second-rate/high-cost service they are now providing their U.S. customers (compared to Korea and Japan). 3. This would hopefully provide enough competition for low cost/high-speed Internet access that we don’t have our national government or local governments build our nation’s future Internet access infrastructure. 4. The FCC should specifically allow local governments to create municipal-owned Internet service and disallow states from forbidding local municipal ownership of Internet or cable services.
John Hite, Oklahoma City
Trying to Control 'Everywhere’
(RE: “Hobbs: Business Rules Delay TV Everywhere,” June 12): You can turn it any way you want to, but it just sounds like [Time Warner Cable] is trying to control or manage content. First they want to educate the public on why tiered pricing is good, all the while stating no infrastructure investments are needed for the next 10 years. Now TWC wants to make sure they make money by controlling content on the Net. I am all for making money, but this is too much. Hulu and other services are already out there and if the programmers want to, they can stream content with any control they see fit — the cost is minimal in the grand scheme and lots of startups have or are peddling this capability now. In the end, cable companies have to provide better services, not raise the price every year, or another industry will need bailing out soon.
Edward Guerra, New York
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