After all, if all the people had fast Internet connections,
they might provide their own content, ranging from local sports
vidoed by fans to parties to local government meetings,
and then they wouldn’t be “consumers”, would they?
The people would be participants in their own community,
ranging from local to state, national, and global.
And the big cablecos and telcos wouldn’t be able to monopolize
access to information, which is their cash cow now.
It will take more than wishful thinking to get TW to help with affordable local high speed Internet access.
Klint Finley wrote for Wired 28 February 2013,
You Don’t Want Super-High-Speed Internet, Says Time Warner Cable,
Time Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you
don’t really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and
other high speed providers.On Wednesday, at a conference in San Francisco, Esteves downplayed
the importance of offering a service to compete with Google, as
reported by The Verge. “We’re in the business of delivering
what consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think
they will want…. We just don’t see the need of delivering that to
consumers,” she said, referring to gigabit-speed internet
connections.Esteves thinks only business customers will need that kind of
bandwidth, and she noted that Time Warner already offers gigabit
connections for businesses in some markets.
Right, “in some markets”. How many of you around here can get a gigabit
Internet connection?
And
Time Warner Cable says
Irene Esteves is the Chief Financial Officer,
which makes more sense than a Chief Technical Officer spreading this
doubtfire.
No, it’s
TW CTO Michael LaJoie‘s job to argue against net neutrality.
Paul Rodriguez wrote for cabletechtalk at some unknown date,
Cable’s internal and external technology picture,
