The Cable co's Incentive is increased Revenues.
Many Cable co's are selling High Spead Data Services via Cable Modem's and Digital Telephony Services (POTS).
cox.com
Our advanced broadband network of coaxial and fiber optic cables has become the conduit through which we are delivering other advanced communications services including digital video, local and long-distance telephone and high-speed Internet access services. We are also developing other powerful offerings, including video-on-demand and interactive television services, that will be delivered to customers over our broadband network.
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corporate-ir.net
Broadband -- A Better Path
The same cable that delivers television to our customers also has the capacity to transport large amounts of information to both televisions and personal computers at rates much faster than conventional telephone lines.
We call our network of fiber-optic lines and coaxial cable a broadband infrastructure. That's because its "bandwidth," the range of frequencies it can carry, is much greater than the existing copper phone lines. For our customers, that means a wider choice of television programming, high-speed Internet access, digital cable television, video on demand, telephone service and the capacity to deliver whatever services the future brings.
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attbroadband.com
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rrcorp.central.rr.com
Road Runner, owned and operated by Time Warner Cable, is one of the nation's premier broadband service providers. The Road Runner service is delivered to consumers through a combination of Road Runner's all fiber-optic national and regional networks and the local cable operator's hybrid fiber-coaxial (HFC) infrastructure. Road Runner is primarily offered through Time Warner Cable systems, although selected Cox Communications systems and independent cable operators also provide the service. Road Runner employs over 400 people nationwide. In addition to the company headquarters in Herndon, VA, Road Runner operates numerous Regional Data Centers across the country, and has regional offices in New York City and Denver. Business units include Road Runner Business Class and Road Runner Power Media Services. The corporate facility in Herndon houses a state-of-the-art Network Operations Center, National Content Center and Quality Assurance/Engineering Labs. The Road Runner footprint encompasses major U.S. urban and suburban areas. Currently, Road Runner can be found in 25 states and Newfoundland, Canada. In every system, Road Runner has moved beyond the early adopter market and reached into the local mass market. Significantly, this explosive growth has paralleled ongoing customer satisfaction, indicating the company's ability to provide compelling content and manage customer care, and also attesting to the reliability of the Road Runner technology.
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cabledatacomnews.com
Cable Modem Sub Count Tops 10 Million
North American MSOs Maintain Lead as Residential DSL Passes 5-Million Mark
cabledatacomnews.com
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To understand the cable industry's attitude toward telephony service, you need look no further than the proposed megamerger of AT&T Broadband and Comcast. Before announcing his $72 billion deal for AT&T Broadband in December, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts said he had almost no interest in pursuing voice service until technology to deliver packet-switched telephony was perfected.
His attitude wasn't exactly unique — many cable industry executives had turned a deaf ear toward delivering phone service using conventional circuit-switched technology. The cost of deploying and operating big Class 5 switches was just too great to deliver acceptable profit margins. Packet-based (a.k.a. IP) telephony would deliver the network efficiencies that cable ops would need to make delivering voice service a profitable proposition. So while AT&T and Cox Communications pushed ahead with circuit-switched cable telephony, Comcast and most other cable operators decided to wait for packet technology.
That was last year's logic. Today, Roberts is riding the circuit-switched telephony bandwagon, alongside AT&T CEO Michael Armstrong. Both execs are now touting their potential to compete with local telcos for telephony customers in their attempt to sway regulators — and investors — to approve their proposed AT&T/Comcast union.
For years now, cable operators have used telephony service more as a bargaining chip than as a revenue producer. In 1998, Armstrong made telephony the linchpin of his now-infamous $100 billion bet that cable networks would be able to beat the Bells. But after spending all that capital to buy first TCI Communications and then MediaOne, AT&T Broadband today claims only 1.1 million cable telephony subscribers — almost all of them served by circuit switches.
Clearly, it's possible that cable operators one day will pose a credible threat to local phone companies. That may be happening already in some isolated markets. In his testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust on April 23, Armstrong said AT&T Broadband had gained market penetration of 25% or more in 55 communities where it offers telephony service. (AT&T won't disclose the size or locations of those communities.) Cox, which now has about 500,000 cable telephony subscribers, claims an average market penetration of 18% in areas where it offers phone service and says penetration exceeds 25% of homes passed in markets where service has been available for more than two years.
theneteconomy.com
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