Summary
1. Time Warner Cable has "yet to explain how increased Internet usage increases their costs,” according to the legislator. 2. Somebody on the Congressman’s staff ought to do some research on the capabilities of coax technology. 3. Perhaps the lawmaker can also justify caps resulting in “job killing.”
Analysis
Actually, a tiered system of pricing could lead to more jobs – at all of the MSOs – because their margins should go up. It is also gross hyperbole that Time Warner’s plan “handicaps our ability to compete on the global stage” and that “it will have significant stifling effects on start ups and small businesses” – according to the lawmaker’s press release. The Congressman apparently cannot help himself from going further in terms of “significant impacts on the agricultural, medical, and educational communities.” Where is his evidence? It is silly to think that these sectors are going to stop increasing their net usage, as their businesses would suffer. And why does he assume that there will not be some shifts by business customers in terms of more efficient and less recreational usage of the Internet?
Even in this extreme anti-corporate environment, net neutrality could actually turn into a political loser. According to Multichannel News, Rep. Rick Boucher (D-VA), an influential member of the Communications Subcommittee said, “that there was no ‘legislative emergency’ that required making a network neutrality law a priority.”
