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FCC May Move to Cap Cable Company Size
explosivejared writes "The FCC is making plans to bring back the concept of a 'size limit' on cable operators. 'FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has enough support on the five-member commission to pass a measure that would bar cable companies from owning systems that have more than a 30-percent share of U.S. multichannel video subscribers ... the FCC could have a difficult time defending the 30-percent cap in court. The move comes six years after a federal appeals court threw out an identical FCC rule on the grounds that the agency did not have enough evidence to justify it."
You mean 'moot', not 'mute'.
Mute: unable to speak.
Moot: irrelevant.
You mean 'their', not 'there'.
There: indication of location.
Their: third person plural possessive pronoun.
As for IPTV, delivery isn't a solved problem (yet). Even companies with a lot of experience in streaming, broadcast and other forms of electronic delivery have not solved the limitations on IP delivery in the teeth of companies which don't want to let people use their supposedly purchased bandwidth up to the max. Until that happens and broadband is truly common, this is so much guesswork.
Wow! Good article! It is rather offtopic, but wow... for somebody like me who has only a light education in economics, it's easily digestable yet not dumbed down. I really appreciated reading this article.