Cable Takes Some Punches

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| Peter Radizeski of RAD-INFO, Inc. talking telecom, Cloud, VoIP, CLEC, and The Channel.

Cable Takes Some Punches

Cox, Comcast, Time Warner, Charter, and CableVision showed up for a panel at the Channel Partners Expo in Boston today. As you can imagine the agents let them have it. The question the panel asked is Why Cable? Why, indeed. It sounded like the program is temporary or "in trial". MSO's don't really know the SMB market. Cablecos don't know the channel either.

Currently, they are selling basic voice and data packages with security, hosted email, and backup/storage. So What Wins?

Quality of Service. Fair compensation (20% plus spiffs). NNI and inter-connection of the 5 top networks, which hit 92% of the US land mass. The cable execs handled some of it well until Macario had to halt the conversation as it neared collusion and anti-trust.

All of them have a Business Broadband product. Twelve phone lines and less. Hosted PBX in the pipeline. Managed Services with Response Point and Cisco CallManager. TWC is launching PRI. Cox is rolling out SIP Trunk. Some programs are referral only.

It was an interesting talk. I appreciate them for showing up and being forthcoming. ILEC's better look out.


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Peter,

interesting comments. Can you setup a glossary for some of the acronyms for some of us dislexic people?

I think that they (cable) will fail because they are trying to be the "all" for businesses.

they do not have the expertise in many of the areas they are trying to get to. Reminds me of BS in the day when they wanted to do webhosting and everything else.

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