richdelb
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A potentially interesting side note to this story would be to watch how the Cable companies tell investors that they are growing big time and have a HUGH footprint, while at the same time tell the FCC that they are smaller and that there is no need to trigger the 70-70 rule.
While I'm not even going to guess what the ACTUAL penetration of cable is in the US, it does put cable in an potentially "interesting" position to say the least. |
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Camelot One
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| So the issue at hand is how honest the cable company will be about it's "interesting position" on how much it has penetrated the american public. 
I know when I was a cable customer, I constantly felt like I was being penetrated, in an uncomfortable place.
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questionable
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Phoenix, AZ | Like in the back of a volkswagon? |
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DGLewis
join:2006-03-10
Freehold, NJ
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All the public cablecos include households passed and subs in their annual and quarterly reports. Comcast and TWC (the two largest cablecos) report around 50% take rate. (Others, like Cablevision, are higher, but even CVC doesn't exceed 70%.) I would consider these numbers to be fairly accurate, considering (a) this stuff is probably subject to SOX reporting accuracy rules and (b) even if cablecos were going to shade, they'd shade it upwards, not downwards, when reporting to investors. |
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Phattieg
join:2001-04-29
Jacksonville, FL
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said by questionable  :Like in the back of a volkswagon? No Brody, worse than a Volkswagon. (Mallrats eh?) |
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