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08:16AM Friday Nov 06 2009 by Revcb
tags: broadbandbits
• Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our Business Model [techdirt.com]
• NCTA Outlines Ways For FCC To Free Up Funds For Broadband Deployment [multichannel.com]
• Infonetics Research discusses broadband congestion [broadband-finder.co.uk]
• Netflix Ships PS3 Streaming Discs As Survey Shows ‘Watch Instantly’ Is Hugely Popular [webtvwire.com]
• Backdoor in top iPhone games stole user data, suit claims [theregister.co.uk]
• UK mobile consolidation looms as Orange, T-Mobile ink merger [totaltele.com]
• Symbian phones to support NFC in 2010 [nearfieldcommunicationsworld.com]
• Midnight Droid madness in Manhattan [cnet.com]

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Laughing Man
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Netflix Streaming Is Hugely Popular

Yeah, big surprise there
permalink · 2009-11-06 08:20:48 · Reply to this

DeathK
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Re: Netflix PS3 Streaming Is Hugely Popular

said by Laughing Man See Profile :

Netflix PS3 Streaming Is Hugely Popular
That's not what the article said. It says Netflix's 'Watch Instantly' is hugely popular.
permalink · 2009-11-06 08:58:09 · Reply to this

Laughing Man
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Re: Netflix PS3 Streaming Is Hugely Popular

Oops, mistitled that, that's what I get staying up all night studying.
permalink · 2009-11-06 09:03:09 · Reply to this
Mr Matt

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Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our B

Sounds like the control voice from the classic TV Program The Outer Limits. "We will control the Horizontal, we will control the Vertical, we will control all that you see and hear". Add to that: control you thoughts, and I believe that you have Comcasts executives idea in a nutshell. I think Comcast might want to try subliminal thought control first.

Why do they want to change customer behavior: Greed

How will they make more money without adding value to their services: Charge individually for features and service that are already included without adding value.

For Example: Old business model: most CATV customers could receive all basic and extended basic programs through their cable ready television sets without renting additional equipment. New business model: Charge customers to rent Digital Subscriber terminal to receive extended basic programming that they originally received with no additional rental equipment on each television. I call that Digital Proctology!

Comcast Executives should create a new program on their systems called how to squeeze blood out of a turnip.
permalink · 2009-11-06 09:31:22 · Print · Reply to this
Lazlow

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Saint Louis, MO

Re: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our B

That quote demonstrates how lost these content providers are (cable/movie/music). Lets fix our customers instead of fixing our product.
permalink · 2009-11-06 10:02:48 · Reply to this

suomynona

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...snip...New business model: Charge customers to rent Digital Subscriber terminal to receive extended basic programming that they originally received with no additional rental equipment on each television. I call that Digital Proctology!

I call it covering your ass.

People are thieves and will take whatever they want in the blink of an eye. If you don't nail it down and secure the perimeter with armed guards, people will steal it.
permalink · 2009-11-06 10:55:44 · Print · Reply to this
Mr Matt

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Re: Comcast Exec: We Need To Change Customer Behavior, Not Our B

I believe it's the other way around. Is moving basic programming to the digital tier so the customer has to rent a digital subscriber terminal fair? The customer use to receive the same programming at no extra charge on their cable ready televisions. Is that covering Comcast's ass. I think it is taking advantage of the customer.
permalink · 2009-11-06 11:10:52 · Reply to this
crese24

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1 edit		 Why do they always try to blame consumers for their own problems? Consumers want cable/media prices to come down a lot, is that ever gonna happen? Not likely.
permalink · 2009-11-06 23:37:20 · Reply to this
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