49. The Cable vs Cellular Service Soap Opera

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49. The Cable vs Cellular Service Soap Opera
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What can best be described as an โ€œincestuous, co-dependent, and competitiveโ€ relationship, major US cellular and cable service providers have found themselves in an interesting competitive yet partnering dance. On one hand, cable companies offer...

What can best be described as an โ€œincestuous, co-dependent, and competitiveโ€ relationship, major US cellular and cable service providers have found themselves in an interesting competitive yet partnering dance.


On one hand, cable companies offer mobile phone service plans to consumers through MVNO agreements with cellular service companies while making moves to keep their customers connected as much as possible without dependency on their cellular partnersโ€™ networks.

On the other hand, the cellular service companies are utilizing fiber backhaul from cable companiesโ€™ extensive fiber networks to backhaul their massive 4G and 5G cell site traffic while simultaneously offering fixed wireless access from those same cell sites to directly compete with cable companies for residential internet service.

In this episode, we dive into this fascinating relationship and what it means for these companies as well as their customers.

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Episode Minute By Minute:

0:00 Starting off with a sneak peek, welcome note, and sponsor acknowledgment.

1:25 Dan flying solo

1:46 Comparing similarities and differences between cellular and cable service operators

2:25 Telco Top 5

3:51 Technology Fab 5

4:45 Teclo Top 5 vs Technology Fab 5

6:13 How Cable partners with Cellular

7:05 Cable MVNO products use Cellular networks

8:34 How Cable does whatever it can to avoid relying on Cellular networks

10:15 Charter and Comcast partnering to avoid relying on Cellular networks

11:19 How Cellular depends on Cable

12:53 How Cellular is stealing residential customers from Cable

14:30 Big dollars are being spent by Cable and Cellular to reduce dependency on each other

14:49 Cable big spend on CBRS spectrum and deploying their own wireless networks

17:38 Cellular big spend on fiber


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