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Wireless: Examining the race to the bottom

The wireless industry is facing quite a conundrum: Subscriber growth is faster than the relatively pokey video business, but revenue per subscriber is falling. Toss in the movement by Apple, Google and others to make wireless carriers mere dumb pipes and there's turbulence ahead. ...

Tags: Industry, Video, Cable, Wireless, Wireless Industry, Craig Moffett, Tracfone, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-08-24

The coming wireline business implosion (and how you'll wind up paying for it)

Is the wired telecom business just as doomed as beleaguered automakers like GM and Chrysler and the newspaper industry? It's quite possible a few years down the line. And this wireline fallout will have ramifications well beyond the usual suspects such as AT&T and Verizon. Simply put, cutting the...

Tags: Bailout, Business, Craig Moffett, Finance, Financial Planning, Free Trade, Larry Dignan, Network, Networking, Personal Finance, Phone, Taxes, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telecommunications Company, Telephony, Verizon Communications Inc., Wireline

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Wireless data caps: Are usage based pricing schemes here to stay?

Wireless data providers--notably AT&T and Verizon--have capped their wireless data plans at 5GB per month. In the billing statements that cap is pretty clear, but the ramifications of exceeding them aren't as obvious. In a research note dubbed “Free” Just Ain’t What it Used to Be, the...

Tags: Network, Video, Pricing Strategy, Wireless, Craig Moffett, Wayne Burdick, Definition Movie, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-03-10

Web video isn't killing cable subs...yet

To hear the prognosticators and media tell it, cable subscriptions are being supplanted for video services like Hulu. A recession, free Web video and cable costs add up big problems for cable providers. The reality may be very different, says Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett. ...

Tags: Internet Video, Video, Craig Moffett, Cable, Corporate Communications, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Marketing, Networking, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Additional Resources

Jobs: Catch the App Store if you can

Apple CEO Steve Jobs had a simple message for all the App Store rivals trying to emulate the iPhone maker's model: Good luck catching us. Apple marked the first birthday of its App Store and noted the following about what is becoming a business model moat in...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Wireless, Smart Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-14

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'that's like SAP "wrecked" outsourcing...while I agree the govt inquiry may come to nothing, Moffat's argument is ingenious. By agreeing to a locked SIM, allowing AT&T to continue to play games with 3rd party apps like Skype...

Tags: Wi-Fi, Wireless and Mobility, Telecom & Utilities, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Apple Inc., wireless business, wireless

Discussion threads 2009-07-13

Analyst: Forget the Feds, Apple is 'doing just fine at wrecking the wireless business'

The Feds have been examining exclusive wireless carrier deals with handset makers---think AT&T and Apple---but the effort is a bit of a farce. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett says it's laughable that the wireless industry is anticompetitive and the Feds don't have to worry about wrecking the wireless industry---Apple already has....

Tags: Apple iPhone, Network, Handset, AT&T Corp., Apple Inc., Wireless, Customer Loyalty, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-07-13

Cable Might Try To Kill TV. It Would Not Be Suicide.

Cable operators have a love-hate relationship with TV. Giving Americans scores of TV channels,where they once had just three or four, built them into the telecommunications giants that they are today. But now, the TV business is the least profitable of the three legs they stand on....

Tags: Cable, CMCSA, VZ, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2009-01-28

Cable: Natural born monopoly?

The second quarter results are out and it appears that the cable industry is winning share in broadband, phone and TV connections and handily thwarting encroachment by the likes of Verizon and AT&T. In fact, TV and broadband service is meant to be a monopoly and cable appears to be...

Tags: verizon communications inc., broadband, at&t corp., ma bell, satellite, moffett, broadband growth, cost reduction effort, network technology, cable, broadband internet, telecommunications, networking, personal technology, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-11

What's good for satellite radio isn't necessarily good for satellite TV - yet.

Now that the FCC has given its blessing to the merger of the nation's two satellite radio companies, it was only a matter of time before the question of a merger between their satellite TV cousins - DirecTV and DISH Network - popped up. Senior analyst Craig Moffett at Sanford...

Tags: Merger, Radio, Satellite, Satellite Television, Satellite TV, TVs, Satellite Radio, Tv & Home Theater, Mergers & Acquisitions, Network Technology, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Investment, Finance, Networking, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-07-28

Cablevision could air 500 HD channels by year-end

Cablevision could air 500 HD channels by year-endHmmmm. Yawn.Based on the lack of response, it seems not many ZDNet readers care. I quit caring about television a few years ago.However, it's nice to know that the television I don't watch will now be available in HD so I...

Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Cablevision Systems Corp.

Discussion threads 2007-06-27

The three tactics the broadband monopolists are using to fight net neutrality

From comments made by Qwest CEO Richard Notebaert (that's him) during a keynote speech at Spring VON 2006 yesterday, we can see a "kinder and gentler" strategy emerging from the efforts of the telecom and broadband cable monopolists to oppose "net neutrality" rules that would grant unfettered access to all...

Tags: broadband, Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-03-16