iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Verizon Online DSL
 ·RoadRunner Cable
·Comcast
| Double play...TWC can't compete on Internet TWC's latest rental modems are 8x4 channel bonded. They top out at around 300/65 (aka Comcast's latest tier), realistically...and that's pushing it. TWC could get 24x8 modems to get closer to a gigabit down, but they'd have to upgrade their plant a ton to find 24 internet QAMs (and they'd probably want 32 to spread load).
In short, TWC can't compete on speed with GFiber. They can compete on price, but they're the cable company so they don't like doing that. Competing on price is DSL territory.
So what should TWC do? What it's better at than Google: TV (more channels) and phone (GFiber doesn't have it). Push TV service in the $50 range (maybe a bit more if there are some really good channels that Google doesn't have) and phone service in the $20 range (Sprint's home phone over CDMA service is $20) as part of a double play bundle, then send folks to Google for Internet since TWC can't compete there. Revenues will go down, but TWC doesn't have to upgrade their plant a ton to match (or even get close to) GFiber specs. |
|
|
|
brad
join:2007-09-06
Etobicoke, ON | I'd rather go to a VoIP carrier over going with MSO for phone service. What they provide is overpriced. |
|
| reply to iansltx
said by iansltx:TWC's latest rental modems are 8x4 channel bonded. They top out at around 300/65 (aka Comcast's latest tier), realistically...and that's pushing it. TWC could get 24x8 modems to get closer to a gigabit down, but they'd have to upgrade their plant a ton to find 24 internet QAMs (and they'd probably want 32 to spread load).
There is one little glimmer of hope for TWC, at least on the Kansas side of the state line. 20 years ago it was called Telecable, the cable company that was here when TWC bought it. Telecable had a A/B, dual cable system. When TWC took over the shut down the B side and that wire went dark. That cable is still up in many places if not all. I always wondered why they never lit that up for road runner. Now they have a reason. |
|
