Archive for April, 2010

NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow has just finished testifying before the House Energy and Commerce subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet on the issue of “Competitive Availability of Navigation Devices,” as covered by the National Broadband Plan.

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Today’s FCC public meeting focused on the future of set-top boxes and the current CableCARD regime. As John Eggerton reported for B&C: The inquiry asks for comment on developing an interface device in the home for “all consumer devices,” which the FCC says will achieve four key goals: 1) Spur investment and innovation in the market for retail devices that work with any pay TV service 2) Allow providers to innovate and compete in offering services without requiring consumers to switch devices 3) Generate more competition and consumer choice.

NCTA’s President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow appeared last week on the public radio program The Diane Rehm Show.  Guest host Frank Sesno and guests Amy Schatz, of the Wall Street Journal, and Ben Scott, of Free Press, discussed the recent Circuit Court decision involving Comcast and the FCC, as well as the larger issue of telecom policy, especially net neutrality.

The column below appeared today in The USA Today, as an opposing view to a USA Today editorial. Opposing view on ‘Net neutrality’: Providers back Web freedom By Kyle McSlarrow On Tuesday, a federal court struck down a Federal Communications Commission order enforcing a rule that the agency hadn’t ever actually adopted.

Today, on the NPR program The Diane  Rehm Show, NCTA President Kyle McSlarrow will join Free Press’ Ben Scott and the Wall Street Journal’s Amy Schatz to discuss “Who Controls the Internet?” The panel will discuss the impact of the D.C.

The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit today issued its opinion in Comcast v. FCC.  Below is the statement from NCTA President & CEO Kyle McSlarrow on the opinion: “The Court correctly ruled that a specific order by the previous FCC was wrong.  We cannot state strongly enough that this decision will change nothing about the cable industry’s longstanding commitment to provide consumers the best possible broadband experience.  Nor does the ruling alter the government’s current ability to protect consumers.  We continue to embrace a free and open Internet as the right policy and will continue to work with the Commission and other policymakers and stakeholders to find a sound way of preserving that goal.”

If you’re like me, sometimes driving home from work, you glance in your car’s side mirror and are confronted with the phrase “Objects in Mirror are Closer than They Appear.” This safety warning appears because while it’s useful to have convex mirrors that give drivers a full view of what’s behind them, it’s downright dangerous to use such mirrors to estimate how close following traffic may be.