Is it time to start talking about "plain old television" service, as we talk about "plain old telephone service"?
It might be just a bit early to say. We will need several more quarters of reports until we can say for sure.
But is seems likely something has changed. Multichannel video has been a legacy service for some time, as has POTS, but video has continued to grow subscriber counts, while landline voice lines have been contracting since about 2000 or 2001.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Multichannel Video Entertainment Business Loses Subscribers
Gary Kim has been a communications industry analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology. These days he especially studies changing business models and strategies.He speaks frequently at conferences and spends quite a lot of time organizing conferences and content as well.
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