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- by nehcmit April 12, 2009 6:38 PM PDT
- I think competition will be taking care of this problem over the next few years.
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Showing 2 of 2 pages (34 Comments)All these digital TV market buildouts (IPTV from ATT lightspeed, Verizon Fios deployments, and IPTV from regional phone companies), is forcing cable companies to build fatter pipes via Docsis 3.0 deployments to compete. End effect is you're going from 3 monopolies a few years ago (video, voice, data) in each region to a highly competitive bid for your data dollars on bandwidth designed for high speed video. We'll see how well Comcast does trying to limit bandwidth in the future with all these guys stealing subscribers from them...
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