Could Comcast Have Crushed SBC? I Don’t Think So

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While Ted makes some very good points about Comcast being in a position to crush SBC in residential voice, many of which are more appropriate today, I disagree with his thought that it could have happened five years ago.

Here’s why:

1. Comcast has a conservative streak that dates back to its founding.
2. Comcast does not like to tick off their customers. Meaning VoIP in its infancy would have done just that.
3. Comcast didn’t have the footprint it has today. They acquired AT&T which was TCI. That has given them the national footprint Ted refers to.
4. The Comcast aggregated MSO is really alot of small little systems they have patched together. Each has different equipment. Heck in some places they didn’t know what was where, just where it started (head end) and where it ended (a customer’s house). Over the past three years they have spent millions sorting that out and making their systems more alike so they can roll out other services like VoIP.

Still, Ted’s points are valuable, and today, Comcast, like Time Warner Cable is in a position to ramp very fast and indeed take on the Bells (or what’s left of them) across the USA

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