Defeating Internet Video Threat
Posted on August 4, 2010
Some contend that Internet Video will never achieve its promise in the United States because the parent companies of the dominant Internet Service Providers (ISPs) are hostile to it. More specifically, CATV operators and Telcos consider it a competitive threat to their conventional television subscription services. Furthermore, the threat intensifies as growing numbers of consumers discover that modern televisions can also be used as display monitors for computers or other appliances capable of accessing the Internet.
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As a result, it is argued that the ISPs will adopt usage-sensitive Internet pricing. In short, they will charge consumers for the bandwidth consumed thereby making it uneconomic to watch television shows and movies via the Internet instead of over conventional subscription services. Although consumers will object, their protests will be impotent because there are no realistic competitive alternatives to CATV and Telco ISPs. As AT&T Labs research compellingly documents, metered pricing of communications services severely restricts per-subscriber network usage. Read more…
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Metered Pricing for Internet Access
Posted on April 16, 2009
Timothy Karr, Campaign Director, FreePress.net
If you would like to learn about efforts by Time Warner Cable and other broadband ISPs to test metered-use pricing of Internet service in selected markets, this interview is for you.
Our guest today is Timothy Karr who is the Campaign Director at FreePress.net. His organization is about six years old and is focused on policy issues relating to media. It is funded by various private foundations and individuals and does not take donations from corporations. Read more…
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