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Date: 5/15/2007CONTACT: Rob Stoddard/Brian Dietz, 202-222-2350
WASHINGTON, D.C. – NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow today suggested that the regulatory framework that governs today’s communications marketplace is ready for fundamental reform that better reflects the presence of intense competition and innovation that are providing consumers with an ever increasing array of interactive services. McSlarrow delivered keynote remarks to the Washington-based Media Institute.
Titled, “Competition Policy and the Communications Marketplace,” McSlarrow said that shifting the presumption of regulation to one where the federal government would only intervene if it determines that marketplace competition was not adequately protecting consumers, thereby trusting markets to best serve consumers, was central to real reform of the current regulatory system.
The full text of the speech is linked below.
NCTA is the principal trade association for the U.S. cable industry, representing cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks. The ca1le industry is the nation’s largest broadband provider of high-speed Internet access after investing $100 billion over ten years to build a two-way interactive network with fiber optic technology. Cable companies also provide state-of-the-art digital telephone service to millions of American consumers.
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Abstract: Delivered by Kyle McSlarrow, President & CEO, NCTA, to the Media Institute in Washington, D.C.Attachment: McSlarrow_Media_Institute_05.15.07.pdf (48 KB)Publication Type: Speech