CEOs of 7 MSOs serving rural customers and other markets outside ...
CEOs of 7 MSOs serving rural customers and other markets outside of major cities lobbied FCC comrs. and staff Mon. to brief them on their efforts to provide high-speed Internet service and other broadband services to customers in rural…
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areas. Those lobbying FCC were Richard Sjoberg of Sjoberg’s Inc., Peter Brubaker of Susquehanna Media Co., Rocco Commisso of Mediacom, Joseph Gans of Gans Multimedia Partnership, James Pearson of U.S. Cable Corp., Gary Shorman of Eagle Communications, Kelvin Westbrook of Millennium Digital Media. “Cable operators -- even those serving midsize and rural markets -- are widely delivering on the deployment of high-speed Internet service and other broadband services,” said Robert Sachs, pres. of NCTA, which coordinated meeting. Specifically, CEOs told FCC they were making huge private, risky investments to provide broadband technology to rural communities. NCTA and cable companies in general believe regulators should stick with their current hands-off approach on cable. Sjoberg said more of his customers in Minn. had opted for high-speed cable modem service than for digital video services. Cable operators generally say that they will deliver on HDTV when their customers demand it and that imposing regulations will create significant barrier to investment in other areas.