This weekend, Comcast's Executive Vice President David L. Cohen appears on C-SPAN’s The Communicators.  If you can't wait to watch it on the big screen, you can watch it here online. 

In the interview by C-SPAN's Peter Slen and Communications Daily's Howard Buskirk, David discusses Comcast's deal with Time Warner Cable, reviewing the regulatory timeline of the transaction and discussing the public interest benefits of the deal.   

He also discusses Internet interconnection and Comcast's recent deal with Netflix, noting that the transit market is intensely competitive. Peering and transit are very complicated subjects, and they don't always lend themselves to short answers in an interview.  So we'd like to make sure that David's point on peering is clear. The vast majority of Internet edge providers do not connect with us directly, they reach us via transit through other providers.  We have dozens of settlement-free peers (that is, transit providers who do not pay us anything) who provide these paths into our network, usually charging others for that service.  At the same time, we also have thousands of direct arrangements with CDNs, ISPs, and edge providers for which we are paid, more than 8,000 of them. Most edge providers are gaining access to our Internet backbone through an arrangement with one of the many "wholesalers" selling access to our network, and they likely are paying that wholesaler to reach us.  None of this is new — this is the way the Internet has worked since the beginning. This internet connection market is fiercely competitive. 

David will be testifying on Comcast's behalf before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on April 9th.  Stay tuned for our official filings with the FCC and the Department of Justice in the next couple weeks. 

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