The current FCC, exhibiting alarming mission creep, has started importing its legacy regulations to the online world, like Title II common carrier regulations for Internet providers. There are currently more than 400 undersea cables in service around the world, constituting 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles). While satellites will likely play a pivotal role in powering internet in the future - particularly in hard-to-reach places - physical cables laid across ocean floors are capable of far more capacity and lower latency. Thanks for subscribing. Check out more VB newsletters here. Growing out of that isn’t just about pressing a few buttons and reducing government spending . And, despite what activists say, this isn’t about "cable" either but all TV distributors ("MVPDs") like satellite and telephone companies and Google Fiber, most of whom are small TV players. The social network behemoth is also investing in numerous satellite internet projects and had worked on an autonomous solar-powered drone project that was later canned. Google’s increasing investment in submarine cables fits into a broader trend of major technology companies investing in the infrastructure their services rely on.

Google is now directly invested in around 100,000 kilometers of these cables (62,000 miles), which equates to nearly 10% of all subsea cables globally. Needless to say, Google’s services - ranging from cloud computing and video-streaming to email and countless enterprise offerings - also depend on reliable infrastructure, for which subsea cables are key. There are a lot of issues with the set top box proposal but I’ll highlight a few. The FCC’s recent proposal to "open up" TV set top boxes is consistent with the FCC’s reinvention as the US Internet regulator, and now the White House has supported that push. The FCC tried "opening up" cable boxes for years with CableCard. That debacle resulted in ten years of regulations and FCC-directed standards and had only a marginal effect on the STB market. The FCC is telling these hundreds of companies using dozens of technologies, codecs, what is control cable and standards to develop interoperable standards so that other companies can retransmit the TV programming the MVPDs have bundled. Both have limited ability to compensate for changing aerodynamic conditions. Thanks to its ability to reduce subscriber churn, children’s content is particularly important. The streaming site counts nearly 45M subscriptions in the United States alone (making it just under half the size of the Pay TV ecosystem), and the average account watches an astounding two hours of content each day (making it not just the most watched television "network", but larger than any television group’s consolidated cable portfolio).

The technology that enables smart TVs is also incorporated into external devices such as set-top boxes and some Blu-ray players, game consoles, digital media players, hotel television systems, smartphones, and other network-connected interactive devices that utilize television-type display outputs. For decades Congress has gradually deregulated communications and media. This poses a significant threat to the FCC’s jurisdiction because it is the primary regulator of communications and media. Second, as I’ve written, the FCC’s plans simply won’t work. So whatever streams to the Comcast Xfinity app will need to also work on competing apps if a competitor wants to re-bundle that programming. It’s impractical and likely to fail, as Larry Downes noted in Recode, which is why the FCC provides few details about how this will work. What the FCC is trying to do is force, say, Comcast’s TV programming to be available to certain application makers who want to retransmit that programming. At conclusion, under 5% of the STB market went to "competitive" STB makers like TiVo. In fact, the STB monthly rates cable companies charge are pretty much identical to what municipal-owned and -operated TV stations charge. First, the entire push for the proposal is based on the baseless notion that "charging monthly STB fees reveals that cable companies are abusing their market power." I say baseless because cable companies have lost 14 million TV subscribers since 2002 to phone and satellite companies’ TV offerings (Verizon FiOS TV, Dish, Google Fiber, etc.), which suggests cable doesn’t have market power to charge anticompetitive prices.

Co-owned by Google and RTI, the Hong Kong-Guam (HK-G) cable will have landing points in Piti, Guam and Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong. Most people want TV packaged with broadband and Google was compelled by market forces to go out and purchase TV programming to attract customers. For instance, DirecTV attracts many customers solely because they have NFL Sunday Ticket and Amazon and Netflix original programming is a huge draw to their video services. They also tend to have a sleeker look and more functionality, including LED screens and Wi-Fi connectivity. Please Note: If the range extender setup has not been completed, the signal strength LED won’t turn on. The transfer layer is responsible for bit timing and synchronization, message framing, arbitration, acknowledgment, error detection and signaling, and fault confinement. Uses PAM-4 encoding and a 256 bytes FLIT block, of which 14 bytes are FEC and CRC, meaning that 5.47% of total data rate is used for error detection and correction instead of carrying data. The machine uses the latest transformer technology to give you the reliability and durability. This latest plan has an even smaller chance of success because the FCC is not simply regulating cable boxes, but also boxes from satellite TV and IPTV distributors and their apps.