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Broadband Prices to Double: Report Broadband pricing is a bargain -- and cable operators could double premiums over the next few years, a recent research report predicts. Pricing has "barely increased over the past decade while broadband utility has exploded," writes Jonathan Chaplin, managing partner at New Street Research in a report it sent to subscribers this week, dubbed "4Q16 Cable Trends Review." And while the researcher does not expect leaders such as Charter or Comcast to soon raise prices, it does foresee larger bills for cable subscribers in the foreseeable future, thanks in part to the growing prevalence of bundled and standalone offers (and pricing). In April 2008, broadband users reported an average monthly bill of $34.50, compared with $35 in December 2007, according to a Pew Research report at the time. In 2016, the average Internet-only bill was $53, reported consulting firm cg42 in "Cord Cutter & Cord Never." Related posts:
— Alison Diana, Editor, UBB2020. Follow us on Twitter @UBB2020 or @alisoncdiana. |
In a flurry of activity throughout the week, Donald (DJ) LaVoy, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the US Department of Agriculture, and his team spent about $145.8 million in the non-urban or suburban areas of seven states.
Calix reported revenue of $120.19 million – up 4% – in Q4 2019, putting a bounce in the step of company president and CEO Carl Russo and a shine to Calix's ongoing transition from hardware vendor to a provider of platforms enabled by cloud, APIs and subscriber experience.
Looking to curtail e-waste and improve the bottom line, BT will require customers to return routers and set-top boxes, although subscribers will not have to pay a fee when they receive regular broadband equipment.
The industry standards organization is looking to ease operator pain from residential WiFi, while it also sees initiatives in connected home and other projects bear fruit.
Deploying DOCSIS 3.1 across its entire footprint gave Rogers Communications the ability to offer speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s,
contributing to a broadband segement that generated about 60% of the Canadian operator's $3.05 billion (US) in Q4 cable earnings.
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