Ten Questions That Beg for Answers

Is our President accelerating his verbal bashing of Amazon so that the trial judge in the ongoing Department of Justice DoJ versus ATampampTTime Warner case can revisit his reluctance to allow ATampampT to raise Executive interference issuesWas the DoJ trying to sabotage its own case against ATampampT when it called Greg Rigdon Comcast Cable Executive Vice President for Content Acquisition to testify about the likelihood of higher prices for Turner or HBO content should ATampampT succeedamp160 Rigdon testified quite accurately given the history of content consolidation that it probably wouldnamp8217t make much differenceWas Rigdonamp8217s testimony for Comcast Cable a step in defending Comcastamp8217s vertical integration model just in cast ATampampT loses and our President gets mad at Steve Burke tooIs the very idea of a DoJ suit against ATampampT Time Warner CNN and Jeff Zucker really just a token amp8220winamp8221 for the President like the upcoming really big show of a military paradeWhen will Alexa talk with Comcastamp8217s X1 which is always listeningamp160 Are they listening to us and to one anotherWhen will the FAAANGs acknowledge that running all of the advertising and half the content in the world makes them media companiesamp160 Donamp8217t hold your breath and that extended acronym reads Facebook Alphabet Amazon Apple Netflix and for good measure again Googleamp160 I havenamp8217t figured out an acronym that adds Reddit and Twitter amp8230 FARTAANGIs the new Title I status of net neutrality the end of the argumentamp160 Hahamp160 Or will Congress actually develop a sensible Federal Confusion Commission legislative package and pass itamp160 Ha ha for the immediate futureamp160 Maybe in time for the next Easter Egg hunt on April Foolamp8217s DayWhen will Internet Service Providers ISPs get full control of the infrastructure they builtDid TMobile buy Layer 3 TV just for better content provider relationships amp8230 or was it because Layer 3 TV has already built the best workaround of net neutralityamp160 ISPs do own the spectrum within their pipes and a number of cable operators already allocate spectrum within their own pipes for public internet linear TV and some dedicated fast lanesFour thousand satellites in low earth orbitamp160 Havenamp8217t we seen this plot beforeamp160 The earlier tries were for phone SpaceX is promising broadband for the whole earthamp160 Will it flyRandom NotesThe Cable Centeramp8217s annual Hall of Fame is coming to New York City for the first time on April 4 at the Ziegfeld Ballroomamp160 This yearamp8217s honorees are Nomi Bergman of AdvanceNewhouse John Bickham President and COO of Charter Balan Nair President and CEO of Liberty Latin America Richard Plepler Chairman and CEO of HBO Neil Smit Vice Chairman of Comcast and Vince Gilligan creator of AMCamp8217s Breaking BadAnd the NAB show again invades Las Vegas on April 9Click the social buttons above or below to share this content with your friends and colleaguesThe opinions and points of view expressed in this content are exclusively the views of the author andor subjects and do not necessarily represent the views of MediaVillagecomMyersBizNet Inc management or associated writersamp160

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