Industry swaps ideas at the Clearcable Summit

HAMILTON – The Clearcable Summit organizers never shy away from presenting disruptive, sometimes opposing, ideas.This year it was opener Edo Kweldam of Netherlands independent carrier CAI Harderwijk, whose 40 minute presentation sang the praises of structural separation for network operators. (He is pictured at left with Clearcable president Rob McCann)His company is one of the few Netherlands cable operations which wasn’t sold to a larger provider. Back in 1995, he said, the country had approximately 300 independent cablecos but now there are just a few large ones, providing all the same services we here in Canada would recognize (TV, phone,...