Those 274 franchises translate to about 5.4 million households, CZ says. He brags that with churn rate below 1.5%, customers seem to like what VZ has to offer. At the end of 2006, Verizon expected to have 175,000 video customers.
The agreement shows that the wireless carriers will continue to maintain an iron-fist like control over their networks; showing the cunning of a Night Club bouncer, deciding when and who is allowed to cross the velvet rope. When a brand as big as YouTube
Verizon said that FiOS TV had about 100,000 subscribers among one million homes where the service is available. That works out to about one in ten FiOS TV ready homes or 10% of the addressable market.
Verizon muss $700-$1,000 Pro Kunden ausgeben um dorthin die FiOS zu legen. Doppelt soviel wie AT&T. Verizon will so auch Triple Play anbieten, weil die Kunden da länger bleiben und nicht mehr wegwechseln. Lizenzierungsschwierigkeiten.