Prying Open the Cable Market

garzpacho writes "In an interview, FCC chief Brian Martin discusses his efforts to make it easier for new entrants--especially telecoms-- to compete with traditional cable and satellite companies in delivering video services. The focus of this effort seems to be in addressing local franchising authorities' current bias towards incumbents. He also talks about current congressional efforts to enact national franchise legislation."

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Meanwhile the rest of the world has Gigapop

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Internet delivered in hot piping straight to your home.

But here we're in a race to the bottom, and we'll spend twenty years talking about letting a provider be a carrier for both signal and content, instead of doing something about it.

Inaction may not get things done, but when your political masters don't want real competition in a classic market capitalist form to exist, you say what you have to in order to ensure that such actual reforms never see the light of day.