The Mad World of Broadband

by on September 14, 2004

The WSJ had a good piece yesterday on how telco and cable companies have morphed into the same thing (you’ll need a subscription to see it). Here’s a graph:

In Omaha, Neb., cable giant Cox Communications Inc. has toppled the regional Bell and become the area’s largest phone company. Over in New York, Cablevision Systems Corp. has signed up 115,000 phone customers.

Meanwhile, in the Southwest, telecom titan SBC Communications Inc. has landed 120,000 subscribers for the satellite-TV service it launched in March with EchoStar Communications Corp. Verizon Communications Inc. has built a fiber-optic network in a Texas town and will use it to offer “cable” TV service this fall.

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