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Re: Cable vs. Telco: The battle heats up
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:42:30 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: "Bruce Kushnick" <bruce () newnetworks com> Date: October 14, 2007 1:17:00 AM EDT To: <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: [IP] Cable vs. Telco: The battle heats up
The cable industry seems to have peaked in terms of the number of video subscribers, though growth from advanced services is still solid.
This is embarrassing... AT&T has 100,000 total IPTV subscribers, --- that
represents 25 states. Some data from recent AT&T releases:As of September 7th, AT&T had 100,000 cable competitive services using IPTV
through its 25 state footprint. U-Verse is currently only available in 9 states.AT&T claimed it has passed 5 million homes, but the fine print of the press release says "with service available to nearly half of those households."
--- thus it can serve 2.5 million total. --- This means that only 4% of customers actually are signing up --- it'simpossible to figure out what is happening in the states served, so maybe
it's 10-15% at best. .In order to get the SBC-AT&T merger to happen, AT&T claimed it would have 18
million homes passed by 2007. Then it bought BellSouth, adding an additional 12 states. AT&T current projection is that it will 'pass 8 million by 2007, meaning that 4 million might be able to get the service. To celebrate the 100,000th-customer milestone, AT&T is providing acomplimentary Home Technology Makeover to the Pierson family of Los Angeles.
--- ONE HOUSEHOLD--- wow. And for comparison, customers paid for5.5 million homes by 2000 in California, spending $16 billion (annual report
1993) 6.0 million homes by 2000 in Ameritech, Annual report, 19931 million homes in Connecticut, spending $4.4 billion, annual report, 1993.
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