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Jonathan Chaplin
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Broadband Trends: Cable's problem is with the pricing strategy, not ARPU

We published our big report on broadband trends on Sunday, and on Monday, we pulled out one slide that showed that their competitive challenge lies with pricing and customer support more than with the product. Today, we pulled out another slide that looks at the pricing issue more closely. It shows that cable's ARPU is probably fine. Cable's problem stems from acquiring subscribers at low promotional prices and then increasing those prices sharply over a year or two.
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Frontier Communications Corporation Class B

Frontier Communications is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is a provider of communications services. The company conducts business with both consumer and commercial customers. For consumer customers, the company provides broadband, video, voice and other services and products. The company delivers these services over a combination of fiber and copper-based networks. The company's commercial customers consist of: small, medium and larger enterprise customers, whereby the company provides services including broadband service, Ethernet service, circuit-based services, SD-WAN, and managed Wi-Fi; and wholesale customers, which buy both voice and data services to supplement their own network infrastructure.

Verizon Communications Inc.

Verizon Communications is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides communications, information and entertainment products and services to consumers, businesses and governmental agencies. The company has two reportable segments, Verizon Consumer Group (Consumer) and Verizon Business Group (Business). The company's Consumer segment provides consumer-focused wireless and wireline communications services and products under the Verizon brand and through wholesale and other arrangements. The company's Business segment provides, among others, wireless and wireline communications services and products, video and data services, corporate networking solutions, security and managed network services.

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