said by pnh102:... The main danger for cable companies is that if they deploy this in their existing service areas, they end up competing against their own wired offerings....
that just flat ain't gonna happen.
I would like to think they would use this capability to serve hard to wire communities, to complement their wired services. Unfortunately, I can have no good feelings at all about this, since it is highly likely they have as much interest in establishing a presence to deter competition as anything else.
quite simply, the incumbents want to control the world of content distribution and telecom and are just covering all the bases.