Posts Tagged "cable"

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Numericable: a new competitor shakes up the French broadband market

Is Numericable poised to inject even more competition into the French broadband market? That’s certainly the question on people’s minds these days, after Pierre Danon, new CEO of Numericable, presented a new vision and strategy for the cable company in which Cinven and Carlyle have heavily invested. His goal is to turn Numericable into an active player in the highly competitive French broadband market, and to make inroads into other European markets.

The cable  industry in France has always lagged behind…

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Cable plus wireless equals Comcast?

What is Comcast planning to do in the wireless space? According to Gigaom, Comcast recently hired Dave Williams, former CTO of Telefonica O2 Europe, to be SVP of wireless and technology strategy to “explore wireless options”; there’s speculation that Comcast is going to offer quadruple playbundled communications services: video, voice, data and wireless. Indeed, last March, I reported that Comcast and Time Warner are investing $3 billion in a WiMAX venture to be operated by Sprint and Clearwire. Could that…

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