Cable executives at the SCTE Cable-Tec Expo provided a glimpse into how the industry plans to compete with multi-gigabit speeds even as it works to counter fiber’s high speeds with speed increases of its own. Impact: At the conference, executives from Comcast, Charter, and Cox emphasized how much customer expectations for their broadband service have …
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Cable operators struggled through a tough quarter of broadband subscriber growth in Q2, with Comcast reporting flat growth (negative on the residential side), Charter sliding into the negative, and Altice reporting its fourth consecutive quarter of losses. All three cable operators attributed some of their struggles to the same issues: low move activity combined with …
The CEOs from Charter and Comcast had similar responses when asked during recent investor conference appearances about the potential threat to cable broadband from the explosion of fiber and 5G fixed wireless offerings in the Internet space. Impact: Not only did Comcast CEO Brian Roberts downplay any potential broadband threat his company might be facing …
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T-Mobile executives reveled in the success of their fixed wireless access product on the carrier’s Q4 2021 earnings call on Feb. 2, with CEO Mike Sievert describing the service as “mainstream” due to the subscriber uptake. Impact: T-Mobile ended 2021 with 646,000 fixed wireless access subscribers, including 224,000 added in Q4 and 546,000 for the …
A strong contender for the quote-of-the-month award goes to Andrew McCollum, the CEO of streaming video service Philo. McCollum recently talked to Variety about the rising influence of connected TV platforms that bridge the Internet and living-room TV sets. “Direct-to-consumer,” said McCollum, “is a bit of a myth.” That’s a perceptive read of a phenomenon …
