Charter CFO: Bring on the broadband competition

Whether it's more fiber deployments by AT&T or T-Mobile offering fixed wireless broadband in rural areas, Charter is ready for the competition. Charter CFO Chris Winfrey said Charter was well-positioned to handle all types of competition across all infrastructures due to the continued investments it has made in its network. "We are growing against all competitors in all markets irrespective of the competitive infrastructure," Winfrey said. "And our results really demonstrate that when you compare that to the competition. I guess another point that we wanted to make is that DOCSIS 3.1, which is fully deployed across all of our network at a really low cost at $9 per passing, has a very long runway with many tools to continue to expand the capacity that we have within the existing DOCSIS 3.1 platform. We can get to multi-gigabit speeds at one gig symmetrical just using DOCSIS 3.1 so it has a long runway for growth. There isn't a looming need for an upgrade to the plant."