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    • Comcast Limits User Downloads: Wrong Solution [view article]
      Comcast and other ISP's already charge different prices for different speeds. That being said, I still believe that an application agnostic management of the network is preferable to a download limit. Sep 04 01:25 PM
    • Cablevision Soars; Will the Dolans Try Again? [view article]
      While I agree that the Dolans at some point may make another play for privatizing CVC, I don't make the connection between Jim Dolan's comments and that course of action. In my opinion, I believe he's just addressing shareholder dissatisfaction with the gap between value and market price, which may be caused more by the company's non-cable holdings. My guess is that he's going to make more of an effort to convince the market of the value of the non-cable businesses. Aug 01 01:33 PM
    • Stay Away From Charter Communications: Bankruptcy Filing Looming? [view article]
      This "article" reads like a paper for a freshman business class at a C level college and is too simplistic for Seeking Alpha's target audience. Jul 16 11:49 AM
    • Comcast: Expect a Consumer Revolt [view article]
      I agree wholeheartedly with idepops. I was a triple play customer in California but had only minor issues technically. However, the customer service was so bad that I went running back to DirecTV for video and dropped IP phone altogether (I reluctantly take Comcast internet now). The CSRs have only gone from arrogantly rude in the old days to indifferently rude now. One definitely gets the feel that one is dealing with "the cable company".

      Comcast has made a few public comments about improving customer service, but it's either just noise or the comments aren't translating into action at the operational level. CS improvement needs to be made a high profile priority within the company with active involvement from top management.       Apr 07 11:53 AM
    • Sprint Nextel Expands Mobile Cable/Telephone Partnership [view article]
      "Comcast announced in January its plans to capture 20% of the small business market with bundled wireless services."

      Your facts are a little off. Comcast indeed plans to capture 20% of the small business market, but with their traditional triple play product offering, not with bundled wireless. It has repeated stated that it does not intend to compete "on minutes" in the wireless arena, and is still trying to figure out what to do with the product.

      From their Q4 earnings call:
      "We have no announced plans for any activity out of Spectrum Co. that you haven’t already heard about. But it’s an area that I think we have a lot on our plate in ’07. We will be doing some work with Sprint in a couple of markets to roll out wireless, to see if Quadruple Play has a meaningful difference than Triple Play, better or worse to the consumer.

      Other cable operator partners will be doing different versions of that, but one of the benefits of working in partnership with Sprint is we are going to get to see what ideas work and what ideas don’t work, and we continue to monitor it."       Apr 02 12:39 PM
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