PGHammer
join:2003-06-09
Accokeek, MD
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 ·Comcast
| reply to TKJunkMail
Re: CEO Roberts isn't the only one with vision...
However, wireless is very cannibalistic, and especially so for Verizon (in addition to being the second-largest RBOC, VZW is the second-largest (in terms of subscribers) wireless carrier, and that is *before* digesting Alltel). Between VoIP services (from the cable companies, especially Comcast, and Vonage) and VZW (not to mention AT&T Mobility and T-Mobile), residential/SMB POTS is under assault like it has never been just in the past year. In AT&T Mobility's case, it is owned entirely by the parent, which isn't the case for VZW (which is a JV with Vodaphone plc, which has shown no inkling of selling any of their end to VZ); hence any customer that goes VZW-only is already halfway lost. (This explains VZ's reluctance in doing bundle discounts that include VZW.) |
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fruhead
join:2002-01-29
Montclair, NJ
| reply to badtrip
said by badtrip  :Let's make a bet then. I say in less than a decade, Desktop PCs will be all but dead for mainstream applications. Where's my flying car? |
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Sammer
join:2005-12-22
Canonsburg, PA
| reply to djrobx
said by djrobx :said by en102 :said by Rick :I do have to give kudos to Comcast and CEO Roberts for what they've done. It really is a stroke of business genius. I don't think Comcast or their CEO have done anything unique outside of what is technically a typical business requirement... profit and obtaining more customers. It's not like Comcast 'invented' Docsis 3.0. I think its more of a telco sleeping at the wheel (Verizon being the exception and taking what is a necessary risk). Comcast is probably the most aggressive cable company out there. While more aggressive than Time Warner Cable, they don't really seem more aggressive than Cox or Cablevision. While I wouldn't have expected them to completely upgrade the 750 MHz former Adelphia systems they took over in the Pittsburgh area yet there are still some local systems they took over from AT&T Broadband a number of years ago that are still in bad shape. |
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