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Re: Time Warner Cable CEO investor conference comments
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 05:16:06 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: vijay gill <vgill () vijaygill com> Date: June 3, 2009 2:56:50 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Cc: ip <ip () v2 listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Time Warner Cable CEO investor conference comments Dr. Farber, for IP if you wish. I wrote about this 'dumb pipe' syndrome today http://vijaygill.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/climbing-up-the-value-chain/ to sum up: 1. Stop being afraid of your own networks, take charge. This is not rocket science. 2. Hire the right people. 3. Accept you cannot be all things to all people. No matter how good you are, someone will come up with a better application that runs over your pipe. 4. Focus on getting cost out of the network, cut the organization down (do you really need a director of test?). Automate everything, so you can make a decent margin on the dumb pipe. 5. Be faster (see #1). By definition, if you don’t own your own network, you can’t react quickly. 6. Partner with people, make your platform open so applications can use your core strengths and work with you, as opposed to working against you (hello VZ Wireless, how is that GPS lock going?) /vijay On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:16 AM, David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:
Begin forwarded message: From: Harold Ancell <hga () ancell-ent com> Date: May 30, 2009 10:05:14 AM EDT To: nnsquad () nnsquad orgSubject: [ NNSquad ] Time Warner Cable CEO investor conference commentsFrom 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 ] ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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