Powell On NCTA’s 2014 Priorities: ‘Broadband, Broadband and Broadband’

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The National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA) expects to have a full docket in 2014, but when asked to boil down the organization’s priorities heading into next year, president and CEO (and former FCC chairman) Michael Powell identified three: “Broadband, broadband, and broadband.”

That’s partly because broadband “is still relatively virgin from a policy and regulatory standpoint. It’s not really very old,” he said. Powell echoed the NCTA’s stance that network neutrality rules “were fundamentally unnecessary,” noting that cable has no economic desire to prevent customers from accessing content over broadband. “An open Internet is critical to the vibrancy to that platform.”


Powell On NCTA’s 2014 Priorities: ‘Broadband, Broadband and Broadband’