| This report provides a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the high-speed Internet pricing, bundling and marketing strategies of the top providers, including Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox, Cablevision, Charter, Insight, Mediacom, Bright House, Cable One, BellSouth, Qwest, AT&T and Verizon. The report ranks each provider by maximum speeds provided and by price points, and includes 18 tables of data and analysis.
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INTRODUCTION
SPEEDS AND PRICES
CABLE OPERATORS
Comcast
Time Warner Cable
Cox
Cablevision
Charter
Other Cable Operators
RBOCS
AT&T
BellSouth
Qwest
Verizon
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Broadband data speeds reach new highs, consultant reports
Silver Spring, MD, Sept. 18 -- The battle over broadband pricing, data rates and bundled services is becoming more intense than ever, Pike & Fischer concludes in its most recent annual report on broadband speeds and prices.
Pike & Fischer is an industry consultant and publisher that tracks all aspects of the broadband industry.
In its latest annual report, Pike & Fischer provides speeds, prices and market strategies for each of nine cable operators and four RBOCs (telephone companies). Each company is profiled in detail.
General findings in the report include the following:
- Upload and download speeds continue to rise; in some cases they have jumped dramatically since last year. The top speed of cable tiers now falls in the 8-10 Mbps range, up from the 4-6 Mbps range a year ago.
- The highest speeds are available in regions where Verizon is offering its new FiOS fiber-to-the premise network to deliver industry-leading data rates, and where cable operators are boosting both their download and upload speeds in response.
- Prices are generally holding steady, even as data rates increase.
- New services are beginning to emerge to utilize the higher speeds. Recent moves by Verizon and Comcast, for example, suggest an emerging competition to attract specific high-end customer segments such as online gamers.
The report also describes competitive developments among the various broadband segments. For example, while cable operators are aggressively rolling out voice over IP (VoIP) services, all four regional Bell companies are teaming up with satellite video providers.
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Mitchell Shapiro
Mitchell Shapiro, a Senior Consultant for BAS, has been analyzing media and telecom markets for more than 17 years. He has authored numerous in-depth reports for Pike & Fischer on competitive dynamics, vendor shares and market growth in the broadband industry, including studies on the high-speed Internet pricing, the market for municipal broadband services and strategies for deploying fiber-optic networks. He also regularly tracks the financial performance and broadband initiatives of the regional Bell operating companies.
Mitch previously served as senior vice president at Probe Research, where he was responsible for the company's tracking and forecasts of broadband network, service and CPE markets. He has also served as a senior consultant with Pangrac & Associates, a broadband engineering and strategic consulting firm, and as an analyst with Paul Kagan Associates, where he tracked technology trends and equipment markets in the cable and cellular industries. He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.A. in Telecommunications from Michigan State University.
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