USA is Doing Fine in Broadband Race, NCTA CEO Says

Monday, July 7th, 2008

In our trip through Washington DC, you’ll notice that lots of politicians are upset that the United States is ranked 15th out of all countries in deployment of broadband technologies. Here I visit Kyle McSlarrow, CEO of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, to get the industry’s perspective on how we’re doing in broadband deployment, among other issues.

Tags: broadband, cable, kyle mcslarrow, NCTA, policy

 

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Hey, why not record your own video response on Youtube - and insert the url here.
Posted by رفع (not verified) on February 11, 2009 12:51 PM

Thank you, very cool video I saw a wonderful thank you for the full video I thank you again jpldg Thsnks

Posted by betsson (not verified) on December 3, 2008 10:51 PM

It gets crappy when the content provider is the same as the broadband provider, cause that means that they try to block other content providers and they'd block content competition. Since that is the meaning of the Internet, to allow diversity and full open and fair competition for content.

Posted by Charbax (not verified) on July 8, 2008 3:11 PM

If you have the video-on-demand set-top-box built-in to the TV, that means you have to change TV if you want to change the set-top-box, such as there might be one that comes with better quality, with more storage, with faster and nicer interfaces (interface quality on embedded systems are in full development and can often change). So I'd rather there be $99 VOD set-top-box that support HD video streaming from HD capable Youtube like systems. Let people have completely ads-free personalized media consumption at the maximum quality. Broadband providers should stay broadband providers and concentrate on that. It gets crappy when the content provider is the same as the broadband provider, cause that means that they try to block other content providers and they'd block content competition. Since that is the meaning of the Internet, to allow diversity and full open and fair competition for content.

Posted by Anonymous (not verified) on July 8, 2008 6:49 AM

I've had 20 megabit fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) for years. 20 up, 20 down. Anyone else got it, how do you like it? Oh BTW, I moved from Silicon Valley to Asia, to get away from Comcast...