Most of you get your broadband of a business – probably from what was formerly called a cable company. And most of you get your mobile phone service from another company – probably what many of you still call a phone business.
Guess who would like to change this?
Time is sold! The answer: cable guys want to become your phone company. And phone companies want to become your large -band companies.
This is good news for consumers, who have traditionally not had a lot of choices with regard to wireless suppliers, and even less choice with regard to broadband.
Is it good for broadband and wireless businesses? We don’t know yet. But we know they are fighting, not bad.
Context: in recent years, large -band companies – remember to Charter or Comcast – have also tried to sell their mobile phone customers. (Charter and Comcast mainly sell renowned access to Verizon mobile networks.) And at the same time, guys like T-Mobile and AT&T have tried to sell their Large strip service of customers, via what is called “fixed wireless” – Internet service which is striped in your home via a box that you put in your window, instead of cables buried in the floor.
You can understand the logic behind the two thrusts: to start, it offers the two industries the possibility of new sources of income as organic growth stands. There is also the thought that customers who obtain both broadband and wireless of the same supplier are less likely to produce.
This also happens like most – but not all – the cable guys have become less interested in selling you which was previously called cable television, because this company is crumbling every day. Meanwhile, the Tellcos, who have stabbed to become video / content companies – see the brief property of AT&T of what is now called Warner Bros. Discovery, and the brief property of Verizon de Aol and Yahoo – decided that they did not want to be in these companies either.
Meanwhile, the two industries develop at all of the other. Moffettnathanson analysts say that the mobile industry signed 12.7 million fixed wireless subscribers at the end of T1 2025, against 11.8 million 3 months earlier. During the same period, cable cars increased from 18.2 million telephone subscribers to 19 million.
And if you want to see what it means for a particular company, consult the winning reports of the first quarter of Comcast and Charter – the two largest cable / high speed companies in the country this week. Both reported a drop in the number of broadband subscribers and increases in their wireless submarines.
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