The Cable Show: U.S. MSOs download their messages with greater speed

LAS VEGAS – The U.S. cable industry, while showing off their new bandwidth capabilities this week at their annual get-together, have been sending a message to their regulator and politicians in Washington. The whole theme of this year’s Cable Show is “Competition Works. Consumers win” and the National Cable Telecommunications Association dug into its archives to try and prove it today. During his presentation, NCTA president Kyle McSlarrow showed current Comcast CEO Brian Roberts on tape from the 1996 annual convention, where he demonstrated just how much more quickly a cable modem could download photos when compared to dialup. Given...