Time Warner Cable (TWC) said it’s negotiating with Netflix for...
Time Warner Cable (TWC) said it’s negotiating with Netflix for “acceptable commercial terms” to participate in Netflix’s Open Connect content delivery network. “While they call it ‘Open Connect,’ Netflix is actually closing off access to some of its content while…
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seeking unprecedented preferential treatment from ISPs,” TWC said in a statement Wednesday. “We believe it is wrong for Netflix to withhold any content formats from our subscribers and the subscribers of many other ISPs.” TWC said it believes its own network is “more than capable” of delivering content to Netflix subscribers. Cablevision recently agreed to participate in Open Connect, joining other ISPs like British Telecom, Telmex and Virgin Media that already use the Open Connect CDN (CD Jan 9 p13).