Cisco CEO Urges Operators to Add Value.(John Chambers)(Brief Article)
Multichannel News, December, 2000 by STUMP, MATT
LOS ANGELES -- Broadband service providers who gain first entry into the home will have a major advantage over competitors, Cisco Systems Inc. president and CEO John Chambers said at a Western Show panel here last week. "It all comes down to speed," Chambers said. And although Chambers believes cable, telco and even wireless providers will all gain a healthy market share, he offered several words of warning for the cable industry.
First, cable needs to focus on value-added services that can be overlaid on its broadband plant. "The cable infrastructure buildout is going well, but it's not thinking ahead enough about valued-added services," he said. "You've got to be very quick to add value-added services. If this goes slowly, I think the ILECs...
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