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.
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.
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