ACA to FCC: Protect low-cost broadband - Telecom News Wire
June 10, 2009
PITTSBURGH -- Web-based content and service providers that succeed in forcing broadband providers to pay subscriber fees for their Internet content will cripple the national effort to deliver affordable broadband access to every U.S. household, the American Cable Association said in comments filed at the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.
Media giants are in the early stages of becoming Internet gatekeepers by requiring broadband providers to pay for their Web-based content and services and include them as part of basic Internet access for all subscribers. These content providers are also preventing subscribers who are interested in the content from independently accessing it on broadband networks of providers that have refused to pay.
PITTSBURGH -- Web-based content and service providers that succeed in forcing broadband providers to pay subscriber fees for their Internet content will cripple the national effort to deliver affordable broadband access to every U.S. household, the American Cable Association said in comments filed at the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.
Media giants are in the early stages of becoming Internet gatekeepers by requiring broadband providers to pay for their Web-based content and services and include them as part of basic Internet access for all subscribers. These content providers are also preventing subscribers who are interested in the content from independently accessing it on broadband networks of providers that have refused to pay.
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