ACA CEOs Discuss Policy

Independent cable executives who met outside of Washington, D.C., yesterday were optimistic about achieving their policy goals in 2009, according to the American Cable Association, which organized the gathering. "With a different audience (of policymakers and lawmakers), we might have a more sympathetic ear for small operators," said Steve Weed, CEO of Wave Broadband. Several hundred operators attending the three-day event considered the broadband stimulus funding, which the ACA believes its members could effectively spend; bandwidth consumption-based billing, a technique of concern to some policymakers but favored by network operators; and new ethics laws that potentially level the playing field in favor of independent operators.