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 cables 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 cables incumbency in the
broadband video space.
http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/news/recent_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003582463
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