The European market should be ripe for cable investors this year. Even though several of the continent's most powerful state-run telecoms companies are selling their cable TV systems, two of them have been dragging their feet. The key for those who want to do business in France and Germany is to be patient.
Opportunities are out there.
You just have to learn how to tell the difference between goldmines and copper trash. Vendors thinking the time is right to move into the German and French cable markets had better think twice. Not yet anyway. Everybody agrees that the two markets are potential goldmines. That flurry has not materialised.