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Wow! They just don't count subscribers:). I realize one way makes more sense from a "we've got more subscribers than you do sense" but it wouldn't be that hard to count real subscribers one wouldn't think. On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 [email protected] wrote: > > > > In a public press release dated August, they claim to have > > > 1.8 million Internet customers. How that compares to the > > > global pool of cable users, I cannot say. > > > > One cable company I've done business here (Ontario, Canada) has over > > 500K subscribers, and I don't believe it has the largest number of cable > > modems in the country. So you're probably talking around 1.5-2 million > > cable modems north of the border. Then you have Europe (I think .nl has > > decent cable modem penetration), Asia-Pacific, etc. > > Very cute. It is clear that the posters forgot how cable industry "counts" > subscribers. The details came out during Adelphia bankruptcy. Since that > time every cable co basically said "yep, that's how we do it too". > > Here's counting subscribers the cable industry way: > > They take a total revenue that's somehow gets associated with selling cable > and divide it by the price of the basic cable. The resulting number is the > number of subscribers that they claim to have. > > > Alex > >
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