Competitive vigor won.
Numbers spell truth, and the truth in advanced service deployments is almost startling.
Across the board, increases in high-speed data and digital video triumphed as the result of a series of lively duels between cable and its telco and satellite competitors. In broadband high-speed data, the top cable and telco providers who control roughly 80 percent of their respective industries ended the year with an estimated 4.6 million customers. That s a whopping 170 percent increase over last year s broadband data totals. The big spike came, in part, from a marketing blitz that raised national awareness of high-speed data as a service category. In 2000, the proverb about rising tides lifting all boats came true for broadband data.