Cable Business Broadband Has Wide Reach in Verizon Markets, Telco Consultant Says
Cable is capable of providing broadband service to 77.1 percent of business customers, and probably more, in five Verizon markets, said a consultant hired by the telco. “Cable companies are now a ‘disruptive wild card’ in the marketplace," said Verizon…
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in a filing posted Friday in FCC docket 05-25 on special access, which included a sworn declaration from Arthur Menko, president of Business Planning Inc. Menko said he studied cable business broadband offerings and capabilities in “core-based statistical areas” of the greater Albany (New York), Boston, Philadelphia, Virginia Beach and Washington, D.C., markets. “If a cable company is both DOCSIS 3.0-enabled and is providing voice service to a business customer in a Census Block, I used that as a proxy to demonstrate that business customers have access to business broadband services from that cable provider throughout the Census Block,” Menko said. He called his approach "conservative" because it didn't necessarily pick up areas where cable companies provide data-only services to business customers. Initial comments informed by industry data collected in the FCC’s special access rulemaking are due by Friday.