McSlarrow: We're only trying to help our Internet subscribers

With discontent still festering over Comcast's admitted slowing of file-sharing uploads, the cable industry's chief on Thursday set out to do a little damage control. Kyle McSlarrow, president of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, said he's "amused" that in all the coverage of the Comcast-BitTorrent spat, no one's talking about the cable industry's role in getting high-speed Internet service to millions of American households and, by extension, enabling online applications and services to take off. [People in Washington do have an odd sense of humor.] McSlarrow said it is important to allow network engineers to tackle "challenges" that arise from heavy peer-to-peer file-sharing use, particularly at peak hours where the potential for "congestion" is high. They're only trying to help cable Internet subscribers have the smoothest possible surfing experience, he suggested.
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