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Organizing the Issues
Pages 205-208

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From page 205...
... It should be clearly recognized that cable TV, since it controls both network and content, has a strong economic interest in excluding other content suppliers from unrestricted access to the cable TV broadband network. Even were there to be more than one vertically integrated broadband network reaching homes, openness would not be assured without either regulation or antitrust litigation.
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From page 206...
... AS contrasted Wltn common carnage or an -- open system," suppliers of content over cable TV do not compete directly for the business of customers, striking why customers whatever deal the market demands. The business arrangements are, rather, first between content producer and the cable company and then, for those products that cable TV decides to offer, between the cable TV company and those connected to its network.
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From page 207...
... The interest of cable TV compames in closed systems is reflected not only in the fact Tat cable TV companies trade for much more than the capital costs of the network investments. It is shown also by the reluctance to be clear about "openness" as even an eventual goal for video networks.
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From page 208...
... ~ view of the unsettled constitutional basis for a federal mandate of openness In broadband networks, it could be that a simple statement by the National Research Council urging localities to make broadband connection to the Internet a condition of renewing municipal cable franchises could be an important step in achieving the goals of the NII.
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Key Terms

  • broadband network
  • rural market
  • closed character
  • common carriage
  • broadband networks

  • vertically integrated
  • strong economic
  • cable company
  • broadband connection
  • content services

  • content suppliers
  • assure universal
  • services offered
  • downtown business
  • carriage regulation

  • network owner
  • program source
  • government intervention
  • owner wishes
  • fiber networks

  • harsh argument
  • business market
  • integrated broadband
  • supplying video
  • digital service

  • interconnection charges
  • existing cable
  • network investments
  • sparsely populated
  • local residential


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