Om Malik raps the phone companies for trying to nationalize rules for sending IPTV to customers through their network (Bells: Lets Change the Broadband Policy). Malik argues that they should simply adopt internet TV and forget about competing directly with cable.

How about giving consumers 100 megabits per second and letting them figure out what they want to do with it. Downloadable video, not IPTV makes more and more sense over the new fiber networks Verizon is building. Why build the same-old television, when you can build a new TV. Not a passive TV, but something better. A sort of hosted TiVo where consumers go to the web and build their own TV channel which comes down the fiber. Thinking different is hard, but in the end that is what is going to make Bells broadband standout, not complaining from the roof tops.