Wireless opportunities have prompted
Comcast to form a new mobile unit, even as the company claims its
wireline broadband business is expanding. The creation of the unit has
prompted questions regarding the direction Comcast plans to go.
Since mobile carriers currently
deliver Comcast content to subscribers, analysts are skeptical about how
Comcast will benefit from adding a wireless component to its business
model. In Q2, Comcast added 220,000 high-speed broadband internet
subscribers. Marcien Jenckes, Comcast’s executive vice president of
consumer services, declares the business is just considering its
options. Multichannel News points
out he told a group at Nomura’s 2016 Media, Telecom & Internet
Conference, “At the moment, what we are doing is very carefully
evaluating our options. We are understanding the market.” Continue Reading
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