comcast_customer
@raf.com
|  "Wait and see"
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation." - Peter Drucker
"We've made it clear that we're watching AT&T to see what the market acceptance is like" - Qwest's Dan Yost
So, the customers are already ASKING, YouTube/Skype/BitTorrent is flooding the 'internet tubes' (as Congressman Stevens put it) but Qwest wants to play 'wait and see'...
What exactly is there to wait and see for? There's no going BACKWARDS or standing still. It's not an 'if' question, it's a 'when' question. Why not lead, instead of follow? Qwest isn't smalltime - they can handle this! |
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gworkman7
join:2005-10-18
Vail, AZ
 ·PHONE POWER
·magicjack.com
 ·Qwest.net
·Broadvox Direct
| AT&T has shown that:
1) Demand for IPTV is not there right now
2) Cutting edge folks willing to go with AT&T quickly drop the service after realizing they can only get one HD stream at a time.
If a company is going to "invest" in a product, there needs to be a belief that there is a demand for the product. I know that, in my situation, I would not go with a Qwest provided service. I've used DirecTV for many years and I'm looking forward to their impending boom on HD.
Qwest will need to be satisfied with phone, dsl, wireless and a partnership with a satellite provider. |
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ricep5
Premium
join:2000-08-07
Jacksonville, FL
·AT&T Southeast
·AT&T CallVantage
·VoicePulse
 ·Comcast Formerly ..
| reply to comcast_customer
Qwest has significant debt. They would have to merge with another entity to get that debt redone.
Verizon sold a lot of bonds to build FiOS and the short termers have been griping ever since. So I can't see Qwest taking on anything more.
Qwest would probably LOVE to build out advanced services but they chose to take on that debt load when they leveraged themselves to buy US West.
That means they must take an incremental approach to where the capital dollars are spent and watch how the market shakes out. There are few ways for Qwest to be able to fund a new service offering with the debt they carry; (w/o selling out)
- Sell a service region
- Eliminate other services
- Reduce costs farther than normal
- Raise prices |
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dmconwa
join:2007-04-19
Albuquerque, NM
| Honestly I would prefer to see Qwest focus on higher internet speeds and keeping the DirecTV partnership intact. They will never be able to put a product together as well built as DirecTV does currently, and with Sunday ticket and the boom in HD they should be able to swing a lot of customers their way in the next couple years if they can keep pace speed wise with cable companies.
A mix of FTTN and ADSL2+ is already out there. The FTTN can handle 50meg, and from what I've heard the ADSL2+ can handle about 25meg. I think they would be in good shape for a long period of time in their region if they focused the bandwidth to internet use and continued to work with DirecTV for their bundle. I don't think the cost would justify the means in their case to offer their own TV product. |
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