There was a great editorial in The Wall Street Journal by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr., on Net Neutrality. Mr. Jenkins points to the problems that FCC strategies represent. If we are looking to the future and not the twilight of the telecom, then broadcast quality video is the metric. Unfortunately the model for the pricing of this service is totally suspect at the moment.
If, as Disney has suggested, ESPN is vulnerable to Over the Top TV, then the bandwidth for video from cable is no longer being paid for by the subscriber.
Now to review, the Internet has always been about taking advantage of excess capacity. The original documents from MIT about had to add connectivity saw local dial-in numbers as the answer. AT&T and every dial up provider designed their dial up networks for blockage. Triple play services had all the add-on packages for video but at its base for video was the cost recovery for the broadband deployment.
Mr. Jenkins goes on to point out that cable is the only game in town. ILEC’s have now less reason to update to broadband.
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