bhorow
join:2004-05-17
Forest Hills, NY
| This is exactly right.
People keep forgetting that cable programming costs continue to rise. They are correct that in areas that areas that Verizon is in they quickly raise the prices of the cable.
I don't know why the consumer thinks that programming cost for company A is different than programming for company B.
Disney doesn't get cheated with ESPN when it raises its programming costs.
All of these companies offer the same thing and is pretty close to a level playing field. They all offer internet-phone-cable.
So it comes down to who services people the best, Cable companies have a large advantage in the beginning. They are gaining phone customers at a rapid rate. Doscis 3.0 is going to start coming in 2008.
The field is fairly leveled at this point. Phone companies have a lot of work to do still to enter into the T.V. area.
There will be no price wars...There will be a value war which means how much speed and how many extras will be put into these packages, how much flexibility the consumer will have. |
