Divicom headends, C-Cube based boxes.................
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Not all major MMDS operators are eyeing data over video, however.
BellSouth Corp. -- which recently added Jacksonville and Daytona Beach, Fla., to its New Orleans, Atlanta and Orlando, Fla., digital-MMDS video markets -- is indicating that the business will remain TV-centric as the telco focuses its two-way-data efforts on fiber optic and DSL platforms.
Bob Frame, president of BellSouth Entertainment, said the company was on target with its business plan and, at times, it had topped $60 per month in average subscriber revenue due to strong cable and pay-per-view buys.
"We think we've broken the code on some things and, operationally, we are doing some things that others couldn't quite figure out how to do," he said. "I think we're going to make money at this. As long as we've got another path -- a wireline path to get a data service to it -- we're not forced to look at this as a data-delivery platform."
Frame added that there were no current plans to launch new MMDS markets, although it was possible that BellSouth could migrate its three analog systems -- in Louisville, Ky., and Fort Myers and Lakeland, Fla. -- to digital.
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