And the pace at which consumers are " cutting the cord" from cable providers is only increasing.

而且，消费者与有线电视供应商“断线”的步伐只会越来越快。

Nineteen small cable providers signed a letter to the FCC asking to end net neutrality, saying that it was killing their businesses.

19 家小型有线电视提供商签署了一封致 FCC 的信， 要求终止网络中立性，称这正在扼杀他们的业务。

Since 2002, the FCC has classified broadband internet as an information service, meaning cable providers couldn't be forced to share their infrastructure with competitors.

自 2002 年以来， FCC 将宽带互联网归类为信息服务，这意味着有线电视提供商不能被迫与竞争对手共享其基础设施。

REPORTER: Right now, if you have cable, you pay on average $231 a year just to rent this, a set-top box, and you can pretty much only get it from one place, your cable provider.

记者：现在， 如果你有有线电视，你平均每年要支付 231 美元来租用这个机顶盒，而且你几乎只能从一个地方获得它， 你的有线电视提供商。

Cable providers would have to give them a direct feed of those shows, so Google would get that feed from say Comcast and then Google could place its menus, its graphics, its branding all over it.

有线电视提供商必须向他们提供这些节目的直接馈送，因此谷歌将从康卡斯特那里获得馈送， 然后谷歌可以将其菜单、图形和品牌放在上面。

Its effort to build a wholesale business, by allowing cable providers such as Comcast and Charter to piggyback on its networks, created new competitors which are offering bundles of internet and TV at a steep discount.

它通过允许康卡斯特和查特等有线电视提供商利用其网络来建立批发业务，从而创造了新的竞争对手，这些竞争对手以大幅折扣提供互联网和电视捆绑服务。