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NCTA President and CEO Michael Powell appeared on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators” this week. He talked about issues ranging from a lawsuit challenging the FCC’s Open Internet Order, Net Neutrality, the upcoming spectrum auction, set top boxes, and the potential harms of LTE-U technology on Wi-Fi. You can see the full video here: This blog also appeared in CTAM SmartBrief.
Cable came out strong this week as two major accolade-awarding organizations in the television industry, the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards, released the list of shows and actors competing for honors in early 2016. The Golden Globes nominations included 27 for cable. HBO and Starz scored the most for cable shows, earning seven and six nominations, respectively.
“Keeping Internet access free from state and local taxes has been a fundamental principle since the Internet was introduced to American consumers and has proved to be a tremendous success. A permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) will ensure that American consumers and businesses will be protected from additional taxes and fees that could raise the price of Internet access
Our connected world is ushering in rapid transformation and redefining the consumer communications experience. Everything in media and entertainment is being reexamined. How do the thought leaders of today and tomorrow keep up? And more importantly, how do you make sure your finger is on the pulse of change? The answer is INTX: The Internet and Television Expo. INTX is
We talk a lot about the cable industry within the United States, but what about the trends and challenges going on in regions beyond the U.S.? I recently spoke with German Iaryczower, senior vice president of sales at ARRIS for the Caribbean and Latin America regions to find out a little bit about the work they are doing with cable
“We are heartened that the Court today held a serious and rigorous examination on the legality and merits of the FCC’s decision to subject the Internet to public utility-style regulation. We have said repeatedly that this appeal is not about preserving an open Internet; it is about the FCC’s unnecessary and unlawful action to reclassify broadband Internet service as a
In Google’s largest consumer survey ever, Onward Internet asked over 100,000 people to quantify their feelings about the Internet. Onward Internet is a special project from NCTA designed not only as a way to learn more about American’s relationship with the Internet, but to provide a freely accessible data resource for anyone curious about shifting Internet sentiments. The nine question
Tomorrow, the DC Circuit Court will hear oral arguments on the FCC’s Open Internet (aka Net Neutrality) Order, which reclassified broadband as Title II service subject to public utility-style regulation. We strongly believe that the reclassification of broadband under Title II was wrong as a matter of law and potentially disastrous as a matter of policy. Tomorrow’s argument will consider
“We applaud Rep. Clarke and the other Members of Congress for their letter raising serious concerns about the detrimental impact that the All Vid proposal would have on consumers and minority and independent programmers. While the FCC’s advisory committee made no recommendation that the Commission pursue a rulemaking, we remain concerned that some special interests are pursuing a costly new
“We applaud the bipartisan leadership of Chairman Walden and Ranking Member Eshoo and the entire House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology for approving the legislative package that takes several steps to remove barriers to broadband deployment in the U.S. Broadband is a critical communications technology that all Americans deserve access to and we welcome these constructive, commonsense proposals.”