Time Warner Cable told the Los Angeles city...

Time Warner Cable told the Los Angeles city government Friday that it’s in the best position to help build the city’s potential municipal broadband network. The city had issued a request for information (RFI) on a municipal network that’s gigabit-capable and can serve a mix of residential, business and government customers. Time Warner Cable told Los Angeles that its current network and planned improvements are capable of delivering the requirements included in the RFI. The operator has invested more than $1.5 billion on its network infrastructure in the Los Angeles area over the past four years, which in conjunction with its new Gigasphere technology “positions us to be able to introduce gigabit-per-second speeds in 2016,” said Peter Stern, chief strategy, people and corporate development officer, in a news release. “Leveraging our existing network allows us to deliver these speeds faster and with less disruption than any other provider” (http://bit.ly/1kDKIcd).