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Video: NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell Talks with CNBC about Facebook's Call for Increased Regulation

Last weekend in a Washington Post op-ed piece, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called for stronger government regulations in four areas: harmful content, election integrity, privacy, and data portability. Facebook has been under fire for quite some time now for data breaches, how it collects and uses customer data, its role in spreading misinformation, and multiple privacy scandals. Yesterday, NCTA President
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Radhika Bhat and Jamie Houton Join NCTA Advocacy Team

Washington, D.C. – NCTA – The Internet & Television Association today announced the addition of Radhika Bhat to its Legal & Regulatory Affairs team and Jamie Houton to its Government Relations team. Bhat will serve as Vice President and Associate General Counsel and joins NCTA from the law firm of Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. where she
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NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell on C-SPAN's The Communicators

NCTA President & CEO Michael Powell sat down with C-SPAN's The Communicators this week to discuss the relationship between the cable industry and "big tech" in Washington, and how technology companies operate differently from cable businesses. "The gold for them is not the service. The gold for them is the data the service produces," Powell told The Washington Post's Cat
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The Shrinking Cost of a Megabit

Data. It’s at the heart of our daily lives and the modern economy. More data means higher quality streaming movies, it means richer more immersive online games, it means stronger long-distance relationships with loved ones, but it also means busier networks. In fact, Cisco predicts that in the U.S. alone, internet traffic will triple by 2022. That’s why earlier this
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Statement of NCTA – The Internet & Television Association Regarding House Subcommittee Markup of H.R. 1644, “The Save the Internet Act of 2019”

“With today’s action, the subcommittee has stubbornly insisted on a partisan path that leads to a dead end. The result of allergically resisting a bipartisan approach to resolving this decades-old issue is that consumers will fail to receive the net neutrality protections that are generally accepted and industry will not get the certainty it needs to invest more boldly. Those
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Mediacom Ignites Innovation in Missouri

In Columbia, Missouri, business is stirring and innovation is found in just as many places as Silicon Valley. Many of these startups are taking off from the Missouri Innovation Center—a nonprofit located within the University of Missouri campus that supports business ventures—and these innovators are doing everything from finding cures for cancers to producing satellite imagery for corn fertilization purposes.
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Improving Broadband Reporting and Mapping

Federal communications policy has long recognized both the virtue of competition in speeding the rapid deployment of broadband technology and the reality that some areas of the country – whether due to challenging geography or economics – are unable to attract the investment required to support broadband access without targeted government help. The federal government spends billions of dollars each
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C-SPAN's 40th Anniversary is a Celebration of Democracy

Forty years ago today, Americans witnessed the very first airing of the House of Representatives. C-SPAN officially launched on March 19, 1979, and has been broadcasting countless federal government proceedings ever since. In honor of its anniversary, the network has donned a new look and a campaign with fresh tag lines and messaging that viewers will see over the next
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Dogs, Snow, and Internet: GCI Connects the Iditarod Race

Every March, for the past 46 years, more than 50 dog sled teams gather in Anchorage, Alaska, to make the journey towards Nome in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The race is Alaska's biggest sporting event, so it's no surprise that many natives treat it like many people treat the Superbowl. They gear up to cheer on the "mushers"
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ACA, CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom Statement on Proposal to Delay Litigation Against Vermont Internet Bill and Executive Order

BACKGROUND: Vermont and ACA, CTIA, NCTA and USTelecom – representing America’s broadband providers – have today agreed to propose a delay in federal court litigation against Vermont's internet bill while the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals continues consideration of Mozilla Corporation v. Federal Communications Commission. Vermont has also agreed not to enforce its net neutrality statute or executive order until
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