Comcast: Broadband adoption needs DTV-like education campaign - 2009-06-05 17:45:54 | Broadcasting & Cable
June 5, 2009
Saying it wants a national broadband plan that works, and likening it to the full-court press on the DTV transition, Comcast executive VP David Cohen says the company is advising the FCC to concentrate on getting service to areas with no access to wireless or wired Internet, as well as on encouraging broadband adoption in places where there is already service available.
Comcast wants carefully targeted government incentives to help reach the 8% of the country that does not have access to at least one broadband service provider. He points out that the other 92% that have it were built by companies without government subsidies or guarantees of a return, while the other 8% were where "it makes no economic sense for a company to build a network." He said that the $7 billion in economic stimulus money would be a good start to filling that 8% gap, suggesting there would be nothing left over to underwrite competition in the remaining 92%...
Saying it wants a national broadband plan that works, and likening it to the full-court press on the DTV transition, Comcast executive VP David Cohen says the company is advising the FCC to concentrate on getting service to areas with no access to wireless or wired Internet, as well as on encouraging broadband adoption in places where there is already service available.
Comcast wants carefully targeted government incentives to help reach the 8% of the country that does not have access to at least one broadband service provider. He points out that the other 92% that have it were built by companies without government subsidies or guarantees of a return, while the other 8% were where "it makes no economic sense for a company to build a network." He said that the $7 billion in economic stimulus money would be a good start to filling that 8% gap, suggesting there would be nothing left over to underwrite competition in the remaining 92%...
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