Since Trump became the President in January this year, he is hard bound on changing everything. Be it the health sector, military, IT or anything. One of its major impact is on the Telecom sector. This could be reasoned out by the fact that Ajit Pal, who was made the new Chairman of the FCC started changing policies.
This is how Charter Spectrum is dealing with the net neutrality debate. They understand that Trump and those working for him are rigidly against Net Neutrality while they support it. They are aware that Pal will overturn net neutrality as the first thing.
Now this gives a opportunity to cable companies to continue their work as they intended. Explaining their sentiments from an article from NYmag, “while it may have appeared to the average consumer that the internet before the FCC regulation “worked pretty well,” the back end was an unseemly mess that actively made using the internet worse. To briefly explain: Between your end connection and the internet at large lies your ISP, which provides that final “last-mile” delivery of services. Your ISP taps into the internet at physical ports, known as internet-exchange points.
As the rise of streaming HD video took off at the turn of the decade, led mainly by Netflix, ISPs realized that they were about to get hosed. Consumers were going to start needing a lot more bandwidth, and ISPs would have to invest capital to provide it, including upgrading and adding many more internet-exchange points.”
This article points towards Charter’s merger with the former Time Warner cable, making it the second largest cable company in the United States. The merger had some conditions. Those conditions prevent Charter from imposing data caps or usage-based pricing, from charging interconnect fees to heavy data users like Netflix, and from making TV exclusivity deals that would harm online video providers. The data caps rule is huge for consumers, as Comcast now appears to be moving in that direction for all customers; but taken together, all three rules are meant to ensure that Charter, which offers both internet and TV service, doesn't prevent online TV services from competing.
Narrowing down the story, Charter’s commitments are as follows:
1] Maintaining the commitments of the Time Warner merger.
2] Remaining committed to net neutrality despite the political scenario.
Though tough, let us hope for a positive outcome for everyone.