Comcast vs. Verizon: Why The Battle?

Published: May 7, 2007, 8:37 am

Tags: investments, comcast, broadband, verizon, internet, cmcsa, cable, vz

For market share, of course. There are many people who believe that these two companies will have to share customers and that there will be one clear "winner" between the two. While that may be somewhat true(the sharing of the customers part), I believe that both of these companies can be successful distributing their products throughout the market. Verizon has done an outstanding job positioning themselves as the best wireless network/provider. Comcast has focused on being the #1 cable provider. With services overlapping(phone, internet, cable, and video), I believe that Comcast is taking the lion's share. They expect to have 20% of households subscribing to digital phone service, which has helped drive subscriber additions in recent quarters. In certain locations, Verizon's services are not available; however, they will probably take share from other wireless providers(having such a positive reputation concerning their network). Sometimes there isn't a clear cut winner in the battle

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