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Wednesday, August 8, 2007

FiOS is Kryponite for DirectTV and Cable

In the first 90 days of the FiOS availability 34 Massachusetts towns, this is how the losses stack up:1. Comcast lost 5,216 subscribers across a base of 204,160, a drop of 2.6%.2. RCN lost 1,813 subscribers, or 7% off its base of 25,895 subscribers.3. 4.5k FiOS TV subscribers came from DirecTV/DISH, or about 40% of their total subscriber4. Verizon’s gain was 11,982 subscribers.I guess that explains why Massachusetts is getting FiOS TV 2.0 next!

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