 NY TelPremium
join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
kudos:3 | Competition Is a good thing. Perhaps CV will shake things up in that market and stimulate some good services for the consumers. |
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 odogCable Centric Vendor BiasedPremium,VIP
join:2001-08-05
Atlanta, GA
kudos:9
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| Bresnan was a smart business man Interesting. I wouldn't have expected cablevision to buy such a remote market with such geographically spread out and unclustered systems.
They're a smart company they must have their reasons!
On another topic, this is further proof that Bill Bresnan was a smart business man. He turned a profit on the sale and probably made a profit most of the years he owned those systems. |
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 LinklistPremium
join:2002-03-03
Longport, NJ
kudos:5 | Comcast owns 30% of Bresnan Much of what Cablevision will be buying was actually owned by Comcast and spun off to Bresnan because the local properties weren't contiguous to the main Comcast plant. As part of that deal, Comcast maintained a 30% ownership in Bresnan. »www.cedmagazine.com/comcast-to-u···ems.aspx
Funny how things go. Comcast dumps the systems and now Cablevision is buying them. Doesn't make sense to me that Cablevision is buying local systems so far flung from their main cable plant. Sounds like a major fail situation to me.
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 IowaManPremium
join:2008-08-21
Grinnell, IA | reply to NY Tel
Re: Competition Someone Please buy Mediacom and give us great customer service and expand next-gen internet for the people of Iowa  |
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Re: Comcast owns 30% of Bresnan they have something up their sleeves other wise they would not never made the deal. Maybe they have some plans to become a nationwide provider after all? And this is just the first steps of becoming one.
I wonder which cable company will be next? Charter? MediaCom? Suddenlink? WindJammer?
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 Chris 313Come get somePremium
join:2004-07-18
Houma, LA
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said by Linklist:Much of what Cablevision will be buying was actually owned by Comcast and spun off to Bresnan because the local properties weren't contiguous to the main Comcast plant. As part of that deal, Comcast maintained a 30% ownership in Bresnan. » www.cedmagazine.com/comcast-to-u···ems.aspxFunny how things go. Comcast dumps the systems and now Cablevision is buying them. Doesn't make sense to me that Cablevision is buying local systems so far flung from their main cable plant. Sounds like a major fail situation to me. Yeah, and in a few years, watch Comcast buy Cablevision and get those Bresnan systems back |
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nonymousPremium
join:2003-09-08
Glendale, AZ | Not Qwest, Centurylink Qwest from day one was just a leech on the old US West Ma Bell designed to leech all of the old RBOC assets and put them in managements pockets before this final sale to Centurylink. |
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Re: Comcast owns 30% of Bresnan doubt it. The Dolan's are going to sell that easy to Comcast. Especially when nobody knows what the logoic is behind the purchase.
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| when the going gets tough... when the going gets tough (aka Verizon digital voice), the tough find more ways to buy tax writeoffs.
Now Verizon can offer a $90-$99 deal inclusive of fees, and eliminate most (if not all) Digital Voice fees and provide an apples to apples... Cablevision must cut prices or else... upgrade service. I thought this move was at least another 4-10 years out by Verizon-- once they sold off all unprofitables and unloaded billions more.
Perhaps it's a public relations thing.. Cablevision is expanding their footprint, whilest Verizon is cutting theirs. It's also a given that Verizon had/has a HUGE footprint to begin with.
I bet at&t is very unhappy with all that economic turmOIL in the south usa.. that means less business in their newly purchased Bell South investment.. boo hoo.
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Digital Voice is just a new service they can offer over the FiOS and that will be about it.
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Re: Competition Better hope Tw or comcast are not looking at it. |
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NY TelPremium
join:2004-04-09
Smithtown, NY
kudos:3 | reply to tmc8080
Re: when the going gets tough... Maybe Verizon will:
1. Sell off non-profitable markets
2. Cutback FiOS rollout for a while
3. Eventually buy Cablevision
Think about it! |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to hayabusa3303
Re: Competition What's the problem with Comcast again? |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to odog
Re: Bresnan was a smart business man I' scratching my head here as well.
Maybe CV is buying because they'd like to go into a market without rip-roaring, cut-throat competition for a change? |
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join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
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| How does this make sense? I could understand Suddenlink buying Bresnan because that's what they do (rural cable systems, which they then build up to the point that they're better than telco alternatives in the area). However Cablevision is an urban operator that's used to working with advanced technology, N+0 plant and heavy competition from FiOS where FiOS is available.
Then this?!? |
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | WHAT!!!???!!!??! When the heck did this happen? I thought they were just looking into it, not actually selling the company.
Looks like I was right. When Bill died, they wanted to ditch the company ASAP.
I wonder what's going to happen to the call centers now. Are they going to have magnitudes more workload or are they going to start killing them off. I hope things stay the same.
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Re: when the going gets tough... we had that happen before. But instead the Telco actually built out as an over builder. Remember AmeriCast? Which is now WOW? It was Ameritech's baby until SBC came along and sold the markets and WOW took over and rebuilt again just a few years later.
On the other hand Cinci Bell bought an overbuilder MSO a few years back.
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to hottboiinnc
Re: Comcast owns 30% of Bresnan Its Dolan's backup plan if CV Tri State declares bankruptcy because of FIOS. There is a 100% guarantee there will be no Telco FTTH in Montana. Dolan also has has his media channels/sports investments. I dont think CV will brand integrate Bresnan anytime soon. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to NY Tel
Re: when the going gets tough... said by NY Tel:Maybe Verizon will: 1. Sell off non-profitable markets 2. Cutback FiOS rollout for a while 3. Eventually buy Cablevision Think about it! No, HFC is obsolete. CV might be worthwhile to buy it for its Lightpath Business fiber division, to get rid of its lowball prices (as compared to ILEC SLA fiber). Theres also anti-trust regulations, you have to maintain the illusion of competition. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to iansltx
Re: How does this make sense? Its a backup plan for dolan in case CV tristate area goes bankrupt from FIOS some years down the road. |
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