Drew Clark reported for TechDaily for a long time. He also runs the Broadband Census. So, I pretty much take what he says about the Cable/Internet industry as gold, and I won't try to "reinvent the wheel" by saying something better than he does. I missed this story yesterday where he does a good job of explaining the hole a certain cable operator is in, both politically and technically.
After going into some background on Monday's FCC hearing which we both covered, Drew notes the back story:
Besides, Comcast is not a very good FOK, or Friend of Kevin -- as in Kevin Martin, the chairman of the agency. Martin has done nearly everything in his power to harm Comcast and the cable industry since he took over the FCC in March 2005.
That political battle with the cable industry is all about a la carte, or per-channel television programming.
So, the company that fought tooth-and-nail to keep Net Neutrality off the table last year has a guy who really, really doesn't like them. As we reported yesterday, the "family tiers" were the compromise to Martin's a la carte proposal. Martin is apparently still a bit miffed. It also didn't help that the Verizon VP who was at the hearing said that Verizon doesn't need to manage their network at all. Drew (who was at the hearing) even noticed the name tags:
Note even the pre-ordained and subtle digs, visible in this photograph: It is "The Honorable Tom Tauke" on the left, but merely "David L. Cohen" on the right. (Tauke received this honorific because he is a former Congressman, a Republican from Iowa.)
So, when you walk in with a politically stacked deck, and the other guy says he doesn't even need to do what you're accused of doing...that's bad. But when you admit that your product has a technical limitation, and he manages to plug his products? Ouch. Quoth Mr. Clark:
The basic problem for Comcast is that users of P2P applications like BitTorrent do consume an extraordinary amount of bandwidth . But BitTorrent users aren't hogging the fat, downstream pipe that cable offers. It's the the scrawny upstream trickle that everyone is fighting over.
DSL service, in general, has the same "asymetrical" character, offering far greater downstream speeds than upstream speeds. But the cable modem service's shared network compounds this problem.
Contrast this with the message that Tauke imparted. Given the capacity of Verizon's fiber optic service (FiOS), "at the current time, we do not have the necessity of thwarting or curtailing traffic." Tauke even touted Verizon's 20/20 service, or 20 megabits downstream and 20 megabits upstream. The Bell company announced this symmetrical during the same week in which the revelations of Comcast's BitTorrent behavior surfaced last fall.
At this point, I'm going to stop keeping score. Thanks, Drew.
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