[180614] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Regulators now regulating Internet History? Really?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Livingood, Jason)
Mon Jun 8 10:28:57 2015
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From: "Livingood, Jason" <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com>
To: Fletcher Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>, Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 14:30:20 +0000
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On 6/8/15, 6:56 AM, "Fletcher Kittredge" <fkittred@gwi.net<mailto:fkittred@=
gwi.net>> wrote:
Yes, after 2005 cable companies invested in broadband...
Without respect to the merits of the AEI article, I did want to point out t=
hat cable companies have been investing in broadband / Internet services we=
ll before 2005. They were in an R&D phase in the early 1990s and by around =
1995 - 1996 there were many cable modem trial deployments underway in the U=
.S. Comcast and several other cable companies launched their cable Internet=
service in 1996 in partnership with @Home.
For some early background, see:
https://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=3DPlanet_Broadband&seqNum=
=3D17
http://www.businessweek.com/1996/42/b34971.htm
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1996-12-04/business/1996339002_1_cable-mod=
em-cable-companies-modem-service
Regards,
Jason Livingood
