{"id":67,"date":"2013-03-01T10:37:56","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/time-warner-says-you-dont-want-high-speed-internet.html"},"modified":"2013-03-01T10:37:56","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T15:37:56","slug":"time-warner-says-you-dont-want-high-speed-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/time-warner-says-you-dont-want-high-speed-internet.html","title":{"rendered":"Time Warner says you don’t want high speed Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAfter all, if all the people had fast Internet connections,\nthey might provide their own content, ranging from local sports\nvidoed by fans to parties to local government meetings,\nand then they wouldn’t be “consumers”, would they?\nThe people would be participants in their own community,\nranging from local to state, national, and global.\nAnd the big cablecos and telcos wouldn’t be able to monopolize\naccess to information, which is their cash cow now.\nIt will take more than wishful thinking to get TW to help with affordable local high speed Internet access.\n<\/p>\n

\nKlint Finley wrote for Wired 28 February 2013,\n\nYou Don\u2019t Want Super-High-Speed Internet, Says Time Warner Cable<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n

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\nTime Warner Cable chief technology officer Irene Esteves says you\n\n<\/a>\ndon’t really want the gigabit speeds offered by Google Fiber and\nother high speed providers.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn Wednesday, at a conference in San Francisco, Esteves downplayed\nthe importance of offering a service to compete with Google, as\nreported by The Verge. \u201cWe’re in the business of delivering\nwhat consumers want, and to stay a little ahead of what we think\nthey will want…. We just don’t see the need of delivering that to\nconsumers,\u201d she said, referring to gigabit-speed internet\nconnections.\n<\/p>\n

\nEsteves thinks only business customers will need that kind of\nbandwidth, and she noted that Time Warner already offers gigabit\nconnections for businesses in some markets.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nRight, “in some markets”. How many of you around here can get a gigabit\nInternet connection?\nAnd\n<\/p>\n

\nTime Warner Cable says\n\nIrene Esteves is the Chief Financial Officer<\/a>,\nwhich makes more sense than a Chief Technical Officer spreading this\ndoubtfire.\n<\/p>\n

\nNo, it’s\n\nTW CTO Michael LaJoie<\/a>‘s job to argue against net neutrality.\nPaul Rodriguez wrote for cabletechtalk at some unknown date,\n\nCable\u2019s internal and external technology picture<\/a>,\n<\/p>\n\n\n

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\nMICHAEL LAJOIE: You know, I think that data’s core TCP\/IP isn’t\n\n<\/a>\nneutral. It isn’t. Protocol stack does certain things first and\nother things later. It drops different kinds of packets before other\nkinds of packets. It isn’t neutral. It never was. Routers that know\neach other and trust each other handle traffic from each other\ndifferently from those they don’t know and don’t trust. It’s built\ninto TCP\/IP. And so the notion of network neutrality is… I’m not\nsure where it even came from or how it got started. It’s kind of a\nmarketing ploy.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAnd it’s his job to ensure Time Warner’s technology keeps people\nbeing consumers, not providers.\nBroadcasting and Cable Hallf of Fame,\n\nMichael L. LaJoie, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Time Warner Cable Inc.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\n“Mike is a giant steamroller; he is like a big yellow Caterpillar\n[monster truck] coming at you,” jokes Rossetti. “When he’s on a\nproject, you don’t want to be standing in front of him.\n<\/p>\n

\n“And that is a good thing,” Rossetti adds, because it has allowed\nhim to implement some innovative but complex technologies. “Mike was\nresponsible for not just the technology but the business side of\nrolling out VOD…. It was a huge effort he pretty much did by\nhimself with a couple of other people who worked for him. In today’s\nenvironment, you’d probably need 40 people to do all that.”\n<\/p>\n

\nSuch traits will continue to be important for Time Warner Cable,\nwhich is aggressively rolling out TV Everywhere services that many\nanalysts see as key to cable’s future. “Mike is leading our efforts\nto give consumers access to any content, at any time, on any device,\nin any place they want it,” Britt says.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nTime Warner is in business to make money,\nand they’re rolling in the dough from their monopoly position\nusing technology that keeps people consumers, not participants.\nThey are not going to jeapardize that cash cow position\n\nfor the good will of some mini MSA halfway between Atlanta and Orlando<\/a>,\nnot unless they’re given a good reason to do so,\nsuch as a lot more customers or more profit or losing the customers they’ve got.\n<\/p>\n

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