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Submitted: May 9, 2007 - 10:44am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 7:10am
Last updated: February 21, 2008 - 7:10am
COMCAST UNVEILS 'WIDEBAND' TECHNOLOGY
[SOURCE: MediaWeek, AUTHOR: Jim Cooper]
Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts unveiled new broadband technology called "wideband," which can download vast amounts of data and video in a matter of seconds and potentially supercharge cable’s triple-play offering. Roberts demonstrated how wideband can download four gigabytes of data -- equivalent to how much the average family consumes online a month -- in just under four minutes. In the short term, Roberts and his fellow cable operators plan to use that speed to continue to hammer away at the competitive threat from both the telcos and satellite with their triple-play offering of video, broadband and voice services. And as that triple play continues to attract consumers with new services, the big MSOs intend to grow in scale and even acquire or crowd out new-media competition that has just started to test cable’s incumbency in the broadband video space.
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