Transcripts For CSPAN Communicators With David Cohen 2017092

Communicators, our guest is david cohen, comcast Senior Executive vice president. He is here to talk about telekinetic test Telecommunications Development and regulation competition. What is included in your portfolio at comcast . I have a great portfolio, especially someone with adult attention deficit disorder. Responsibilities, i think i probably put my role as chief diversity officer as the lead sponsor ability, one that im most proud of. Then i have an external affairs bucket, where i have ultimate responsibility for the way in which the Company Present itself externally, including communications, government affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy. Then a bucket of strategic responsibilities that i share with bryan robinson, steve burke and might see the fo. Busy, enough to keep me but its also enough to make my job incredibly interesting, because it is true that every day when i wake up, i have no idea what is going to come across my desk. Weve been hearing a lot about cord cutting, is the current module model updated at this point . I dont think the current pay model is outdated, i think it is in transition. I think that transition is something we have an focused on for a number of years. As has been the case every time when theres a competitive thread or a potential Business Model change, it is having to make us a Better Company. Example, there are a number of ways i can talk ourt this, we created engineers, software developers, the x one platform a couple of years ago, which was transformed the way our customers watch television. Interface,udbased what did we do last year . Netflix into the x one platform. Our customers cannot watch netflix through x one, are incredible voice remote, you can use your voice remote to search netflix. ,hen you use the voice remote and say scandal, scandal episodes,. All the scandal episodes are available, those that are on your dvr, those available on demand, those on netflix. Those that you can purchase from sony, which is the producer of scandal. Perspective, we are making it most convenient for customers to watch the videos that they want to watch. In the last few days, we have announced youtube also being integrated into the x one platform. This is the way we are adapting. We are embracing what customers want to see. We are trying to make it as convenient as possible, we have to get access to all the video content they want to watch. Left brained our guest reporter in, longtime political reporter. He is a tech and Business News site. Here,nk you for being just to continue with the conversation. Do you think pay tv and cable look like 20 years from now im not sure i know what they look like 20 months from now. I think in a somewhat shorter time frame, longer than year, i think that we are evolving in a way that is consistent with our vision of what we are going to see. See ak we are going to continued role for traditional cable television, its hard for life sports, the olympics, nfl football, baseball, world cup, that most people are not going to want to 6080those life sports on 90 Vision Television sets in their game room or their living room, or even in a bar or sports bar. I still think theres going to be a role for tv news in a classic television environment. I also think theres going to be a continued growth in alternative sources for watching video. Live,x, youtube, facebook we have an application on the x one platform and is also on smartphones and tablets that are watchable, a collection of professionally produced short form videos. News, comedy, entertainment, i think there will be a continued growth and desire for people to watch video wherever they are. They arent going to watch all of their video, sitting in their home. The ability to be able to deliver video with smartphones and tablets for people on the go is going to become increasingly valuable as we go along. I think we are going to see a continued evolution, i dont know that we are going to see a revolution, at least in the next 57 years in the way which video is delivered and consumed. We are going to continue to see , wements as we have seen look and Pay Attention to our College Student customers and the way they are consuming video and highspeed data. We have extended the oncampus product, a highspeed data product that includes a videoing feature with content for College Students to get their broadband through x trinity xfinity. To get a basic package of video content that they can watch on their laptops or on their smartphones or tablets. I think we are going to see more evolution of the way that customers want to perceive receive their video. We love the positioning that we have, being able to leave all and deliver on their customer demand. On the comcast positioning, you mentioned sports. Im curious for your thoughts as to where amazon, twitter, and this. Ch side play into they are each looking to do more with sports. Its a key for people to get cable in the first place. How do you take the mess how do you take them as threats . Every competition is not a threat, i happened to be a believer that competition makes iarket work better happen to be a believer that competition makes the market work better. There will be some potential competition for sports rights. The businesst models that the amazon and facebook might want to apply, twitter might want to apply in this space. Dont think the vast majority of americans are going to watch the olympics on a smart phone. Its a completely different experience. Room for atheres lot of different different gas Business Models and ideas. Our response was from summer olympics in real, Winter Olympics in south korea, we now have this arrangement, we are going to be delivering olympic content in concert partnership with the snap over over the snapchat platform. I dont know how its going to work, but i think its making us a Better Company to say that we do have customers who are fans of the olympics may not want to have their entire olympic experience be defined as a big screen tv in their homes. Theres an interest in olympics content on the small screen, and in a different format. We went out and created this partnership and will be working with snap to try and redefine the olympic experience for viewers would like to see it in this way. For Companies Like comcast to start to do more, the business that regard you to go out and by other companies, or partner with them. Im curious for your thoughts about this administration and its openness and views on things like competition and antitrust. This is someone who said he wanted to break up you guys, you are still here in one piece. What is your take on the Job Administration and competition . , i feel compelled to say this we love our company. Acquisition, Nbc Universal acquisition. We view ourselves as essentially strategically complete. There saying to survive we have to find Something Else to buy. On the other hand, we have never viewed ourselves as being foreclosed from the acquisition marketplace, either domestically or internationally. It has to be the right deal, something that we think enhances the quality of the company. Enhances returns to their shareholders. Secret thates no overall this president and administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth, or even vertical growth, in the Telecom Space and elsewhere. The president doesnt have a confirmed assistant attorney general for any trust yet. That is the key player in this space. There is not a complete ftc under this administration, thats the other key player. Overall, theres likely to be less hostility to Larger Companies and mergers and acquisitions that Grow Market Share within our space and other spaces in other industries. I dont think thats a license for anything goes, i dont think thats what this free market philosophy that is likely to present itself in this administration is likely to say. I think theres clearly going to be less hostility, and a greater willingness to allow the market to work and companies to get bigger and acquire or merge with other companies. It doesnt give you pause when the president is tweeting about one of your competitors, at t and its merger and the pursuit of time warner. He said repeatedly he wants to block that deal, its not your company, but does it give you pause about him talking about transactions like that . Isthe way i talk about this i think the overarching philosophy of competition policy, and antitrust enforcement in this administration is likely to lead toward the free market approach. Morephilosophy of competition hd acquisitions. A the other hand, there is street in this president that we saw evidence of itself multiple times on the campaign trail. The populism and populist approach could be a bit of a governor. M a policy overall, the administration. In terms of whether the president s tweets give me ive actually think i could be wrong about this, we have to see how it plays out. I think most of what the president is doing on twitter is on your station, its not policy. Its certainly a glimpse into the weight which he is thinking, but there are plenty of things that he has tweeted where one month later he has tweeted Something Else in a different context is 180 degrees or 160 degrees different from what he originally treated tweeted. Maybe im immune to it, im less concerned than a lot of my friends about the president s tweets. I think its a bit of a release valve for him. In that sense, its not unhealthy, but i also think that since general kelly has been chief of staff, there has been a reduction of the tweets. Still a lot of tweets, more of them are more controlled and substantive and are less head scratching than some of the free general kelly were about. Specific matters on the competition front at the sec, lets get with at t. Have you spoken to the Justice Department about conditions . We dont comment on other peoples deals. Thats ready rock solid position of the companies and before i was there. I really try and religiously observed that. Proposed thehat we at t acquisition of time warner as the ultimate consummate to Brian Roberts and his vision. Its a copycat copycat of envy comcast acquisition of universal. There was a fair amount of criticism, because it occurred at a time where content and distribution were being split and most people were moving in a different direction. Some people question ryans vision. Brians he has strong instinct and a strong field to put content and distribution together to maximize consumer and shareholder value. After six years of performance with that, i think his vision as been proven to be correct his vision has been proven to be correct. The acquisition of time warner is a perfect example of somebody else seeing that and saying putting distribution and content together is a way to maximize customer, as well as shareholder value. Have you been to the Justice Department to talk about financial conditions . I just dont like talking about other peoples deals. I dont like it when other people talk about our deals. Preserve mynt to ability to privately complain when people do that. Im just to control myself and not talk about our views on that deal or anything that has occurred in the context of the reveal of the deal review of the deal have to ask about sinclair tribune, what does that mean for comcast . Again, i dont comment on other peoples deals. Im not going to comment on that deal. They are obviously looking there are obviously implications for that deal in the broadcast ecosystem. There are probably some good company,r the particularly on the Nbc Universal side. There are also some potentially troubling issues for consumers. Having that large a broadcastocal affiliates and almost inevitably put upward pressure on retransmission consent fees, which are the number one driver cable prices for consumers these days. You have seen the docket, the studies that have been interest to introduced into the record which identify and highlight the potential anticonsumer applications of the transaction from the perspective of driving up retransmission consent fees. It would be a communicators show if we didnt bring. Net as thatty has process moves through the fcc and congress, what is your take on the new fcc with folk and tengion and chairman pies position . I dont want to be presumptuous, obviously the chairman has put out a notice of proposed rulemaking of expressing an intention to move and reclassify broadband under will,i to repeal, if you the misguided and neighbors reclassification of rock band under title ii that was effectuated by. I would note that he was only one of the fcc chairs appointed by president obama. The other chair declined to reclassify broadband under title ii, properly recognizing the dangers of doing that. The potential adverse implications for investment incentives and continued growth of the internet and the lack of a necessity, but doing that because there are other ways to be able to put in place next neutrality regulation spread Net Neutrality regulations. We dont need title ii, title ii is dangerous. Implications for investment and consumer welfare. The npr squarely tees up the question of what should Net Neutrality will speak, and what is the best way to impose those neutrality rules . When i keep reading in the press, are we including nbc press that chairman pie is attempting to repeal neutrality . Thats not what the npr and says , i cant read his mind, but i dont think thats what he intends to do. It is not what comcast is , i dont think it was the isp community is looking for. For a looking reclassification of broadband in title i, which for 2030 years under democratic and republican secs allowed the internet to drive, encourage private sector investment. We are also looking at our enduring netrong neutrality rules. Discrimination, basicnsparency, the gambit of Neutrality Principles and rules started when Michael Powell was chairman of the fcc and protected consumers, and enabled the internet to thrive for at least a couple of decades. Thats the direction that chairman pie and at least the majority republican fcc are heading. We have to rbc wait for the boat to do that. I think there is enough controversy around sources of rulesity who impose those that im hoping everyone is going to come to the conclusion that the right answer here is bipartisan congressional legislation that put in place once and for all stronger, enforceable, enduring Net Neutrality rules. A couple of analogies over the course of this debate, the game of retort regulatory thing pond, going back and forth from the fcc to the courts. The sec makes a decision, somebody appeals that a court, the Court Overturns the decision , back to the fcc, fcc makes another decision, back to the court. This is not a matter of constitutional authority, its a matter of statutory authority. Thats what congressmen are elected for, to pass laws. I think this is the time, maybe the time to end this game of regulatory thing pond. Made ast blog on this, i reference to groundhog day, which is you mentioned, we have to have a question on the neutrality. It does feel like groundhog day, every time ive been on this show, it does feel weve had a conversation about that neutrality. Every transaction we are involved in, Net Neutrality is part of the discussion. Its the open definition of groundhog day. Every time you wake up, no matter how much progress youve made, no matter how much you think you moved the ball down the field, there you are back again. Act that the fcc will will encourage congress to say its time to end this. There is enough of a consensus out there around what Net Neutrality rules should look we will legislate them, put them in place, and put everyone out of their misery maybe for the next 30 years. Just to tease a couple of elements of that out, theres consensus, but there doesnt seem like theres a whole lot of consensus on Net Neutrality. Whats the compromise on paid prioritization . I was careful in choosing my because you also have been participating in our groundhog day discussions around neutrality, pick one of two issues that i didnt mention, and that activation. Best paid prioritization. I believe theres a copper mines around it. Rman men ofas chair a prohibited any competitive paid prioritization and created the presumption of the rule against the legality of paid prioritization but allowed it to recur occur subject to casebycase review by the fcc. The world did not go crazy, but nobody said theres this massive loophole in julius genachowskis Net Neutrality will. Change, maybe that particular construct doesnt work anymore. What i think needs to happen, it can only happen in one place, there will be comments in the docket about paid prioritization. The npr and asks people to weigh in on what they think that neutrality rules should look like. Have are people who weighed in, we have weighed in with our perspective on possible compromises around paid prioritization. The real place that discussion should take place is between republicans and democrats in the United States congress as they work to quantify this into a legislative place and see if they can come up with a construct that sentiment is is all the various strike stakeholders. I believe there are multiple compromises that can result that particular issue. If we are down to just that issue, i cant believe we are not going to be able to get an overall agreement over something that will work in the paid prioritization. If they took the Jan Schakowsky language and plopped that into a legislation, would they supported . I cant speak for the whole industry, i think they would. Arguablyritization, was a much more significant issue five years ago than it is today. The reason for that is, lets talk about comcast, our flagship Senior Executive<\/a> vice president. He is here to talk about telekinetic test Telecommunications Development<\/a> and regulation competition. What is included in your portfolio at comcast . I have a great portfolio, especially someone with adult attention deficit disorder. Responsibilities, i think i probably put my role as chief diversity officer as the lead sponsor ability, one that im most proud of. Then i have an external affairs bucket, where i have ultimate responsibility for the way in which the Company Present<\/a> itself externally, including communications, government affairs, regulatory affairs, public policy. Then a bucket of strategic responsibilities that i share with bryan robinson, steve burke and might see the fo. Busy, enough to keep me but its also enough to make my job incredibly interesting, because it is true that every day when i wake up, i have no idea what is going to come across my desk. Weve been hearing a lot about cord cutting, is the current module model updated at this point . I dont think the current pay model is outdated, i think it is in transition. I think that transition is something we have an focused on for a number of years. As has been the case every time when theres a competitive thread or a potential Business Model<\/a> change, it is having to make us a Better Company<\/a>. Example, there are a number of ways i can talk ourt this, we created engineers, software developers, the x one platform a couple of years ago, which was transformed the way our customers watch television. Interface,udbased what did we do last year . Netflix into the x one platform. Our customers cannot watch netflix through x one, are incredible voice remote, you can use your voice remote to search netflix. ,hen you use the voice remote and say scandal, scandal episodes,. All the scandal episodes are available, those that are on your dvr, those available on demand, those on netflix. Those that you can purchase from sony, which is the producer of scandal. Perspective, we are making it most convenient for customers to watch the videos that they want to watch. In the last few days, we have announced youtube also being integrated into the x one platform. This is the way we are adapting. We are embracing what customers want to see. We are trying to make it as convenient as possible, we have to get access to all the video content they want to watch. Left brained our guest reporter in, longtime political reporter. He is a tech and Business News<\/a> site. Here,nk you for being just to continue with the conversation. Do you think pay tv and cable look like 20 years from now im not sure i know what they look like 20 months from now. I think in a somewhat shorter time frame, longer than year, i think that we are evolving in a way that is consistent with our vision of what we are going to see. See ak we are going to continued role for traditional cable television, its hard for life sports, the olympics, nfl football, baseball, world cup, that most people are not going to want to 6080those life sports on 90 Vision Television<\/a> sets in their game room or their living room, or even in a bar or sports bar. I still think theres going to be a role for tv news in a classic television environment. I also think theres going to be a continued growth in alternative sources for watching video. Live,x, youtube, facebook we have an application on the x one platform and is also on smartphones and tablets that are watchable, a collection of professionally produced short form videos. News, comedy, entertainment, i think there will be a continued growth and desire for people to watch video wherever they are. They arent going to watch all of their video, sitting in their home. The ability to be able to deliver video with smartphones and tablets for people on the go is going to become increasingly valuable as we go along. I think we are going to see a continued evolution, i dont know that we are going to see a revolution, at least in the next 57 years in the way which video is delivered and consumed. We are going to continue to see , wements as we have seen look and Pay Attention<\/a> to our College Student<\/a> customers and the way they are consuming video and highspeed data. We have extended the oncampus product, a highspeed data product that includes a videoing feature with content for College Student<\/a>s to get their broadband through x trinity xfinity. To get a basic package of video content that they can watch on their laptops or on their smartphones or tablets. I think we are going to see more evolution of the way that customers want to perceive receive their video. We love the positioning that we have, being able to leave all and deliver on their customer demand. On the comcast positioning, you mentioned sports. Im curious for your thoughts as to where amazon, twitter, and this. Ch side play into they are each looking to do more with sports. Its a key for people to get cable in the first place. How do you take the mess how do you take them as threats . Every competition is not a threat, i happened to be a believer that competition makes iarket work better happen to be a believer that competition makes the market work better. There will be some potential competition for sports rights. The businesst models that the amazon and facebook might want to apply, twitter might want to apply in this space. Dont think the vast majority of americans are going to watch the olympics on a smart phone. Its a completely different experience. Room for atheres lot of different different gas Business Model<\/a>s and ideas. Our response was from summer olympics in real, Winter Olympics<\/a> in south korea, we now have this arrangement, we are going to be delivering olympic content in concert partnership with the snap over over the snapchat platform. I dont know how its going to work, but i think its making us a Better Company<\/a> to say that we do have customers who are fans of the olympics may not want to have their entire olympic experience be defined as a big screen tv in their homes. Theres an interest in olympics content on the small screen, and in a different format. We went out and created this partnership and will be working with snap to try and redefine the olympic experience for viewers would like to see it in this way. For Companies Like<\/a> comcast to start to do more, the business that regard you to go out and by other companies, or partner with them. Im curious for your thoughts about this administration and its openness and views on things like competition and antitrust. This is someone who said he wanted to break up you guys, you are still here in one piece. What is your take on the Job Administration<\/a> and competition . , i feel compelled to say this we love our company. Acquisition, Nbc Universal<\/a> acquisition. We view ourselves as essentially strategically complete. There saying to survive we have to find Something Else<\/a> to buy. On the other hand, we have never viewed ourselves as being foreclosed from the acquisition marketplace, either domestically or internationally. It has to be the right deal, something that we think enhances the quality of the company. Enhances returns to their shareholders. Secret thates no overall this president and administration is likely less hostile to horizontal growth, or even vertical growth, in the Telecom Space<\/a> and elsewhere. The president doesnt have a confirmed assistant attorney general for any trust yet. That is the key player in this space. There is not a complete ftc under this administration, thats the other key player. Overall, theres likely to be less hostility to Larger Companies<\/a> and mergers and acquisitions that Grow Market Share<\/a> within our space and other spaces in other industries. I dont think thats a license for anything goes, i dont think thats what this free market philosophy that is likely to present itself in this administration is likely to say. I think theres clearly going to be less hostility, and a greater willingness to allow the market to work and companies to get bigger and acquire or merge with other companies. It doesnt give you pause when the president is tweeting about one of your competitors, at t and its merger and the pursuit of time warner. He said repeatedly he wants to block that deal, its not your company, but does it give you pause about him talking about transactions like that . Isthe way i talk about this i think the overarching philosophy of competition policy, and antitrust enforcement in this administration is likely to lead toward the free market approach. Morephilosophy of competition hd acquisitions. A the other hand, there is street in this president that we saw evidence of itself multiple times on the campaign trail. The populism and populist approach could be a bit of a governor. M a policy overall, the administration. In terms of whether the president s tweets give me ive actually think i could be wrong about this, we have to see how it plays out. I think most of what the president is doing on twitter is on your station, its not policy. Its certainly a glimpse into the weight which he is thinking, but there are plenty of things that he has tweeted where one month later he has tweeted Something Else<\/a> in a different context is 180 degrees or 160 degrees different from what he originally treated tweeted. Maybe im immune to it, im less concerned than a lot of my friends about the president s tweets. I think its a bit of a release valve for him. In that sense, its not unhealthy, but i also think that since general kelly has been chief of staff, there has been a reduction of the tweets. Still a lot of tweets, more of them are more controlled and substantive and are less head scratching than some of the free general kelly were about. Specific matters on the competition front at the sec, lets get with at t. Have you spoken to the Justice Department<\/a> about conditions . We dont comment on other peoples deals. Thats ready rock solid position of the companies and before i was there. I really try and religiously observed that. Proposed thehat we at t acquisition of time warner as the ultimate consummate to Brian Roberts<\/a> and his vision. Its a copycat copycat of envy comcast acquisition of universal. There was a fair amount of criticism, because it occurred at a time where content and distribution were being split and most people were moving in a different direction. Some people question ryans vision. Brians he has strong instinct and a strong field to put content and distribution together to maximize consumer and shareholder value. After six years of performance with that, i think his vision as been proven to be correct his vision has been proven to be correct. The acquisition of time warner is a perfect example of somebody else seeing that and saying putting distribution and content together is a way to maximize customer, as well as shareholder value. Have you been to the Justice Department<\/a> to talk about financial conditions . I just dont like talking about other peoples deals. I dont like it when other people talk about our deals. Preserve mynt to ability to privately complain when people do that. Im just to control myself and not talk about our views on that deal or anything that has occurred in the context of the reveal of the deal review of the deal have to ask about sinclair tribune, what does that mean for comcast . Again, i dont comment on other peoples deals. Im not going to comment on that deal. They are obviously looking there are obviously implications for that deal in the broadcast ecosystem. There are probably some good company,r the particularly on the Nbc Universal<\/a> side. There are also some potentially troubling issues for consumers. Having that large a broadcastocal affiliates and almost inevitably put upward pressure on retransmission consent fees, which are the number one driver cable prices for consumers these days. You have seen the docket, the studies that have been interest to introduced into the record which identify and highlight the potential anticonsumer applications of the transaction from the perspective of driving up retransmission consent fees. It would be a communicators show if we didnt bring. Net as thatty has process moves through the fcc and congress, what is your take on the new fcc with folk and tengion and chairman pies position . I dont want to be presumptuous, obviously the chairman has put out a notice of proposed rulemaking of expressing an intention to move and reclassify broadband under will,i to repeal, if you the misguided and neighbors reclassification of rock band under title ii that was effectuated by. I would note that he was only one of the fcc chairs appointed by president obama. The other chair declined to reclassify broadband under title ii, properly recognizing the dangers of doing that. The potential adverse implications for investment incentives and continued growth of the internet and the lack of a necessity, but doing that because there are other ways to be able to put in place next neutrality regulation spread Net Neutrality<\/a> regulations. We dont need title ii, title ii is dangerous. Implications for investment and consumer welfare. The npr squarely tees up the question of what should Net Neutrality<\/a> will speak, and what is the best way to impose those neutrality rules . When i keep reading in the press, are we including nbc press that chairman pie is attempting to repeal neutrality . Thats not what the npr and says , i cant read his mind, but i dont think thats what he intends to do. It is not what comcast is , i dont think it was the isp community is looking for. For a looking reclassification of broadband in title i, which for 2030 years under democratic and republican secs allowed the internet to drive, encourage private sector investment. We are also looking at our enduring netrong neutrality rules. Discrimination, basicnsparency, the gambit of Neutrality Principles<\/a> and rules started when Michael Powell<\/a> was chairman of the fcc and protected consumers, and enabled the internet to thrive for at least a couple of decades. Thats the direction that chairman pie and at least the majority republican fcc are heading. We have to rbc wait for the boat to do that. I think there is enough controversy around sources of rulesity who impose those that im hoping everyone is going to come to the conclusion that the right answer here is bipartisan congressional legislation that put in place once and for all stronger, enforceable, enduring Net Neutrality<\/a> rules. A couple of analogies over the course of this debate, the game of retort regulatory thing pond, going back and forth from the fcc to the courts. The sec makes a decision, somebody appeals that a court, the Court Overturns<\/a> the decision , back to the fcc, fcc makes another decision, back to the court. This is not a matter of constitutional authority, its a matter of statutory authority. Thats what congressmen are elected for, to pass laws. I think this is the time, maybe the time to end this game of regulatory thing pond. Made ast blog on this, i reference to groundhog day, which is you mentioned, we have to have a question on the neutrality. It does feel like groundhog day, every time ive been on this show, it does feel weve had a conversation about that neutrality. Every transaction we are involved in, Net Neutrality<\/a> is part of the discussion. Its the open definition of groundhog day. Every time you wake up, no matter how much progress youve made, no matter how much you think you moved the ball down the field, there you are back again. Act that the fcc will will encourage congress to say its time to end this. There is enough of a consensus out there around what Net Neutrality<\/a> rules should look we will legislate them, put them in place, and put everyone out of their misery maybe for the next 30 years. Just to tease a couple of elements of that out, theres consensus, but there doesnt seem like theres a whole lot of consensus on Net Neutrality<\/a>. Whats the compromise on paid prioritization . I was careful in choosing my because you also have been participating in our groundhog day discussions around neutrality, pick one of two issues that i didnt mention, and that activation. Best paid prioritization. I believe theres a copper mines around it. Rman men ofas chair a prohibited any competitive paid prioritization and created the presumption of the rule against the legality of paid prioritization but allowed it to recur occur subject to casebycase review by the fcc. The world did not go crazy, but nobody said theres this massive loophole in julius genachowskis Net Neutrality<\/a> will. Change, maybe that particular construct doesnt work anymore. What i think needs to happen, it can only happen in one place, there will be comments in the docket about paid prioritization. The npr and asks people to weigh in on what they think that neutrality rules should look like. Have are people who weighed in, we have weighed in with our perspective on possible compromises around paid prioritization. The real place that discussion should take place is between republicans and democrats in the United States<\/a> congress as they work to quantify this into a legislative place and see if they can come up with a construct that sentiment is is all the various strike stakeholders. I believe there are multiple compromises that can result that particular issue. If we are down to just that issue, i cant believe we are not going to be able to get an overall agreement over something that will work in the paid prioritization. If they took the Jan Schakowsky<\/a> language and plopped that into a legislation, would they supported . I cant speak for the whole industry, i think they would. Arguablyritization, was a much more significant issue five years ago than it is today. The reason for that is, lets talk about comcast, our flagship Broadband Speed<\/a> when George Czajkowski<\/a> was doing that neutrality rules was 25 make them. At 25 make down, there might have been business reasons why it happened. Espn, to take an example, would want to pay comcast for a better experience for the people who were downloading any espn streaming video app. 100,lagship speed today is there isnt any reason for the normal customer why anyone needs a prioritization. Broadband speeds and broadband capacity have evolved to such a such a great extent that the fear five years ago about the need for pay per activation to improve the Customer Experience<\/a> is not present as much. There might still be some needs, aybe in the commercial space, hospital that is doing remote healthcare by High Definition<\/a> video conferencing. Mayoclinic that has obotic surgery indian reservations being conducted by technicians at the mayo clinic itself. You dont exactly want a glitch in the middle of the surgery, it may be worth it for them, it may be important for the service to pay for some enhanced capacity to make sure they get a prioritized quality of service. Its not competitive, its not taking away from basic Internet Access<\/a> services that anyone elses delivering. The not the fear that opponents of pay per activation were articulating. I think theres something to be done here, and we can reach a compromise on that point. Final question, you have become a Wireless Phone<\/a> company, as well . Correct. People said what about wireless . We said we have this great and bno from verizon, we launched we launched our Wireless Service<\/a> in april of this year. We are excited i the results in the consumer reaction to the digital experience. Our customers have signed up for digitally. We are offering the service and all of our comcast stores. We are optimistic and we are theted about not only take away so far, but the reaction of our customers to being able to purchase Wireless Service<\/a> from comcasts bundle. We look forward to you bringing back and fishing these conversations. Thank you. Think you for having me. Thank you for having me. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. As1979, cspan was created a public service. It is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. In washington journal their life in annapolis, maryland, as part of the capital store. Our guests will be buoyed beherford will rutherford. Join us at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Is that time of year to announce our 2018 student documentary competition. Spread the word to students and their teachers. The theme is the constitution and you. We are asking students to use a provision to choose a provision and explain why it is important. It is open to middle school and high school students, grades six through 12. Students can work alone or in a group up to three and produce a documentary on the provisions selected. 100,000 will be awarded in cash prizes. 5,000 willize is go to the student or team with the best overall entry. The deadline is generating, 2018. Market calendars and help spread the word mark your calendars and spread the word. Go to our website for more. Next, a debate in the virginia governors race. And at gillespie participate in a debate hosted by nbc 4, moderated by chuck todd. Both candidates were asked about a number of topics, including Economic Growth<\/a> and public education. It is under one hour. News for special presentation. Decision 2017, the virginia governors race. Vote in aoff for your highstakes race drawing national attention. 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