As the number of BendBroadband’s Internet-only subscribers has steadily increased...
As the number of BendBroadband’s Internet-only subscribers has steadily increased over the last few years, the problem of limiting their access from unencrypted basic-tier cable programming has intensified, Bend CEO Amy Tykeson told FCC Commissioner Mignon Clyburn and an aide…
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in a recent meeting, an ex parte notice shows (http://xrl.us/bmzmkf). The company was responding to questions raised by Boxee about why preventing broadband-only subscribers’ access to those signals had suddenly become a priority for the cable operator. “That trend is likely to continue -- among other reasons because companies like Boxee seek to urge customers to take our basic services without paying for them,” the notice said. Analog traps, the only alternative to encryption to prevent such signal theft, would hurt Bend’s ability to diagnose, repair and manage its cable system and would reduce broadband speeds, it said. “Interference degrades broadband and traps impair our ability to detect, isolate and respond to interference and other service-affective problems in the network,” it said. They also get in the way of using dynamic network management tools and can cause service outages, it said.