Re: Some AT&T Stats about Cable Upgrades
Bernard and Thread,
I pulled this off the HLIT thread(another 50% T vendor). I don't know where it came from, but appears to back up what I've been reading/hearing in other places. I'm going to post the stats over on the last mile thread, for future reference, because most of the message is AT&T is executing on their version of last mile solutions.
MikeM(From Florida)
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AT&T Chairman Likes Company's Cable Position
The evidence of the company's success is that it's installing 3,000 digital television hookups per day.
Despite the looming threat of forced open access, grumbling from other operators, and the inability to finalize a telephone deal with Time Warner Cable, chairman Michael Armstrong is happy with AT&T's foray into the cable industry.
"The real story is that today AT&T is executing," Armstrong said during an hour-long meeting this week with reporters at the Western Cable trade show in Los Angeles.
The evidence of the company's success is that it's installing 3,000 digital television hookups per day and will end the year with slightly less than two million digital subscribers, according to Armstrong. Further, he said, the company could end next year with 400,000 to 500,000 telephone subscribers, three million digital television subscribers, and 700,000 high-speed data customers. Those numbers, he said, prove that the concept of generating multiple revenue streams over a hybrid fiber/coax platform is solid.
"What we were predicting when we made these investments in the cable companies is now a reality," he said.... |
