AOL
AOL is attempting to be the first stop for consumer broadband users as a destination for premium content and online communication tools. The company is trying to shed its dial-up roots and grab advertising dollars away from Google, MSN and Yahoo!. (4/17/2008)
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Apple
Apple dominates the online music industry with its host of portable devices like the iPod nano supported by its popular iTunes Store selling both songs and movies to over 50 million online customers. The next hurdle is to make Apple TV as popular. (3/17/2008)
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AT&T
AT&T has expanded U-verse, it continues to grow DSL, and it has made progress in post-acquisition integration of BellSouth markets. AT&T has increased its focus on consumer mobility, and it continues to improve its consumer broadband products. (4/22/2008)
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Cablevision
Cablevision leads the cable industry with penetration of digital video, data, and voice and it has an industry- leading ARPU, but it faces an increasing threat from FiOS and may be a victim of its own success as it tries to maintain revenue growth. (4/24/2008)
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Charter
Charter has acquired more than a million voice subscribers, and increased 2007 ARPU to $97.99 but it continues to lose basic video customers and its debt load hampers the company’s ability to modernize the network quickly. (3/20/2008)
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Comcast Cable
Comcast, the nation’s largest MSO, showed impressive voice subscriber gains and moderate broadband growth in 2007. But while its ARPU is growing, it lost 180,000 basic video subs in 2007 and has started to face increased competition. (2/29/2008)
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Cox Communications
Cox has offered triple play bundles for over a decade and 62% of the company’s customers buy at least two Cox bundled services. Cox has upped its HD channels, started switched digital deployment, and it has stopped selling Pivot. (4/29/2008)
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DIRECTV
DIRECTV’s current advantage over cable TV includes a sizable number of more HD channels. But satellite TV is still faced with tough competition from cable promotions and it must rely on telco partners to be part of a triple play bundle. (3/18/2008)
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DISH Network
DIRECTV’s current advantage over cable TV includes a sizable number of more HD channels. But satellite TV is still faced with tough competition from cable promotions and it must rely on telco partners to be part of a triple play bundle. (3/20/2008)
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EarthLink
EarthLink is just trying to survive with restructuring, focused on preserving customer relationships and cutting struggling services like muni WiFi, some VoIP offerings (trueVoice and MindSpring) and satellite TV resell. (7/2/2008)
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Embarq
Embarq is the largest independent local exchange carrier in the country. The profitable telecom provider provides a large variety of bundled and integrated wireline and wireless voice, data and video services in 18 states. (4/16/2008)
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Google
Google is trying to go beyond Web search to offer consumers a higher level of entertainment and communications. However, the company is unclear on its long-term strategy, as it risks stretching itself too thin across unfamiliar territory. (5/6/2008)
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Hewlett-Packard
HP provides the consumer electronics to equip a home with high-tech entertainment products. The company has a focus in PCs and printers, and it distributes its digital home products directly and through major retailers. (8/31/2007)
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Microsoft
Microsoft’s entertainment and devices division was cash positive in FY 2008, but the Microsoft online services business continued to lose money despite aQuantive’s positive results. A Yahoo! acquisition may give Microsoft OSB needed momentum. (4/2/2008)
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Qwest
Qwest has seen revenue success with its bundles, and it is upgrading its broadband speeds in 23 markets. However, with no plans for broad deployment of its own wireline video service, its long-term opportunity to increase ARPU may be limited. (6/16/2008)
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Sony
Sony is pushing into the digital home market, trying to align its content business lines with its software systems and media players. However, it is struggling to reinvent itself while pursuing hit products such as its BRAVIA and PlayStation 3. (8/28/2007)
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Time Warner Cable
Time Warner Cable has increased its ARPU by growing digital subscribers and with value-added services like HD and DVR. But it has dropped Pivot, and it lost 151,000 basic video subscribers in 2007. Its new marketing effort may help. (5/7/2008)
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Verizon
Verizon has reached an impressive 16% penetration for FiOS TV and 21% penetration for FiOS Internet. Despite losing 10.4% of its switched access lines, bundles helped its consumer retail in-territory ARPU annual growth from $53.06 to $58.79. (2/5/2008)
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Vonage
Vonage achieved 75% annual growth in 2006, but this rate slowed to 23% by Q3 2007. Moreover, it lost its lead as the nation’s largest VoIP provider to Comcast and Time Warner Cable, as the cable companies continue to gain VoIP market share. (12/18/2007)
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Yahoo!
Yahoo! is under the media microscope with Microsoft trying to buy it for $44 billion. While its CEO and founder, Jerry Yang, is trying to hold things together as a standalone company there are doubts Yahoo! can last without some kind of big move. (3/4/2008)
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