Technology. Consumers have come to expect things to double and improvement and triple in improvement in sixmonth increments, just like they expect their ios to update every few weeks and a brandnew devices come in every year. The same kind of expectations are being driven into the home. People are looking for that kind of exponential increase in speed. On the other hand if you look at the ditty he would look at the fastest point of technology in the history of the world. Internet speeds have essentially doubled every year. In the last 10 years, it was 1500 . These are exceptional paths. You go 80 Miles Per Hour one minute, and the you think youre going 20, you want to go even faster. That is the rally of the market we are in. We should never be satisfied or happy. Even though there is some explanations, it is an industry that continues to invest 20 billion 50 billion to solve problems for consumers. How worried are you about cord cutters . Im not worried as much as intrigued. I am the
New sources of revenue. I think theyre attacking both of those things, but to focus on the revenue side. I think, one, looking for new ways to delight and hold consumers. So if you look at comcast and its investment in the x1 platform, if you can make video on demand more attractive, easier to use, the interfaces more weblike and more delightful, number one, dont lose what you have, right . Innovate, keep what you have. You also see them taking advantage of broadband, right . That is a blessed source of new Business Opportunity for our industry. It is growing much faster. It still has a huge addressable market. It has good economics, and its a good business. The rapid change in telecommunications, Technology Advances and the future of the cable industry with National Cable and Telecommunications Association president Michael Powell tonight at 8 ian on the communicators on 8 eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Cspan, created by americas Cable Companies 5 years ago 35 be years ago an
Satellite provider. And michael pollen, welcome back to the the communicators. Before we start with the issues, lets start with the Washington Post article from this weekend. It was an Internet Survey report they did saying that well over half of people say they abandoned their Cable Company if they could because of service. What is your response to that . Guest oh, is that a question . The first thing i would say is i think Infrastructure Companies provide these services are well aware of their longstanding challenges with the consumer and i think they have a duty and obligation to work hard to improve services. Bui think there is something somewhat challengine which is software, in the cloud, we are still a business that has to come in your home. We are still a business that has to install hardware and it has to function 310 hours a month which is what the average c consumer watches. It hasnt evolved for many years. Those problems need to be fixed. But i think the pain points lead to
Agreement. Of course there has to be agreement. Of course there has to be a Data Protection agreement and as he knows we plan to publish more and more of this data as open data. We will continue the work to control the virus and we will continue to bring in measures as they are appropriate and i look forward to a return to the spirit of constructive engagement for which the honourable gentleman is so well known. Jeremy hunt. Can i congratulate the Health Secretary for the impressive resilience he has shown through the Coronavirus Crisis but as we both know is that the joy of his job is that windsor is always around the corner and one of the sobering statistics in the mornings report is that the number of people every day overwinter is that the number of people every day over winter who have covid symptoms will increase from 100,000 to 360,000 and it is obviously vital to 360,000 and it is obviously vital to know which one of them have coronavirus and which just has a regular winter flu