Publication Type: Statement
Date: 6/24/2004Rob Stoddard/Brian Dietz, 202/775-3629
Statement of Robert Sachs, President & CEO, National Cable & Telecommunications Association Regarding President Bush's Speech on Broadband at the U.S. Department of Commerce
“We applaud President Bush's reaffirmation of the Administration’s commitment to universal broadband deployment by 2007. President Bush’s rejection of taxes on Internet access and regulation of broadband services is the right prescription for encouraging the widespread deployment of affordable broadband services.”
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NCTA is the principal trade association of the cable television industry in the United States. NCTA represents cable operators serving more than 90 percent of the nation's cable television households and more than 200 cable program networks, as well as equipment suppliers and providers of other services to the cable industry.