Time Warner Cable CEO investor conference comments

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Harold Ancell <hga () ancell-ent com>
Date: May 30, 2009 10:05:14 AM EDT
To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
Subject: [ NNSquad ]  Time Warner Cable CEO investor conference comments

> From dslreports.com:

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-Acknowledges-Debacle-102670

or http://tinyurl.com/lake3g

 Time Warner Cable Acknowledges 'Debacle'

 Though CEO says he still thinks metered billing will work...

 01:35PM Friday May 29 2009 by Karl Bode

 tags: business · bandwidth · Op/Ed · cable · RoadRunner Cable

 Speaking publicly on the issue for the first time since
 Time Warner Cable's PR disaster, CEO Glenn Britt admitted
 to attendees of a Sanford Berstein investor conference
 that efforts to hoist per-byte billing upon unwilling
 customers didn't uh, go very well....

Several interesting quotes, particularly this admission:

 Despite company claims, consumption-based pricing is aimed
 at monetizing the growing explosion in video delivery over
 the Internet, protecting TV revenues, and pleasing
 investors. "If, at an extreme, you could get all of the
 programming you get over cable for free on the Internet,
 over time people will stop buying (TV)," Britt told
 investors in a bit of candor that wasn't apparent in the
 company's communication with its customers.

                                        - Harold


 [ It should be clear by now to virtually everybody that the driving
   force behind bandwidth caps by ISPs who are also in the TV
   business is protection of their content channels.

   Other key grafs from the article:

        That would leave Time Warner Cable as just a dumb-pipe
         bandwidth provider -- and that's the deepest, darkest fear of
         any cable or phone company CEO. Carriers are terrified of a
         future where they just provide high quality cheap bandwidth
         and other companies make a killing from video, content, and
         communications services.

        When the company suspended the trials, they announced they'd
         release a usage meter for all customers. Like their DOCSIS
         3.0 launches, the monitoring tools have so far been a no
         show. We expect that Time Warner Cable is working on the
         presentation of a new metered billing plan this summer that
         they'll unveil this fall.

   -- Lauren Weinstein
      NNSquad Moderator ]




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