| Competition and the lowst price of the season: I'd rather see FULL deployment and support of current technology rather than a price war. The cable industry is under assault by the telcos who WILL get video capability and will HAVE to share the cable marketshare that they currently enjoy. For now, corporate scanals at both adelphia (cableco) and mci (telco) have forced indutry consolidation enough to satiate the lack of any future consolidation. But there will most probably be some sort of consolidation of the 'cablecos' as we currently know them because telcos will be gaining significant marketshare inroads for years to come. The first $'s of which is about to begin and accelerate (legislation pending).
The cable companies are in a price war with themselves, actually.. introductory deals, triple play deals, and whole lot of hoopla speding truckloads of money trying to maintain marketshare... all the while telcos are licking their chops at the potential customer gains to be made in VIDEO... If the telcos are smart they won't be bogged down by duplicating services already offered, but make some new content offerings that make cable look like an old style drive-in movie (but with $6 gas prices). |
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 TopmounterSent By Grocery Clerks
join:2001-02-20
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If the telcos are smart they won't be bogged down by duplicating services already offered, but make some new content offerings that make cable look like an old style drive-in movie
I've got to know, what services do you think that the telcos will deploy in the near to mid future that will make Cable's on-going roll-out of VOD, HD, DVR video services "look like an old style drive-in movie"? |
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join:2003-07-05
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I disagree. The cable companies will eventually realise how easy it is to deploy FTTH on their networks. They already have massive amounts of bandwidth over Coax. Once this happens, the telcos will be destroyed.
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 fgrir
join:2005-04-15
Indianapolis, IN | said by Time:I disagree. The cable companies will eventually realise how easy it is to deploy FTTH on their networks. They already have massive amounts of bandwidth over Coax. Once this happens, the telcos will be destroyed. Cable co's. hsi can't exist without telco's, Cable co's use there backbone. If people want more affordable hsi you need to support whose actually bringing it to you. People think cable prices are high now, wait till there regulated like the telco's.As far as bandwidth is concerned, Yea they have alot of "shared" bandwidth. I have cable and I constantly lag when I'm gaming. Telco's give you a dedicated line witch is one of the reasons that dsl will always be superior to cable. |
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