Comcast still smarting over 'throttling' episode: comes out fighting

The problem for Comcast is that it has no model for monetizing the backhaul and therefore cannot justify customer-to-customer high bandwidth communications.

At the Corporate Innovation Project in New York, we have a solution to the backhaul problem that is elegant, simple, and will throw off a lot of cash. Using it, Comcast can monetize its backhaul and, in doing so, will find that it must encourage maximum C-to-C communication with the most powerful cameras and other gear available.

Bandwidth throttling and the customer alienation it engenders will vanish in a trice. Indeed,the money is so big in our solution that Comcast will be at the FCC begging it to insist on an end to throttling.

But, and it''s a big but, the CIP solution, while simple, means throwing out Comcast''s dreams of content aggregation. Indeed, our simple path to backhaul monetization eliminates all network TV, rating agencies, and CPM-based advertising. They are the horse and buggy of next gen TV.

As it is, Comcast''s structure makes it look like a newspaper in search of a Craig''s List to inhale all of its cash flow.

Reversing this structure to put our solution in place will be an OFCF engine for sure, slash days to cash, and put Comcast on the brand high ground. But a lot of folks there will not make the transition. Sic transit ...