Roberts: keep on innovating: Comcast chief sees 'go-for-it mentality' as a competitive edge.(Brian Roberts, forcasts of cable television broadcasting industry innovations)
Multichannel News, April, 2005 by Farrell, Mike
SAN FRANCISCO -- Despite telephone companies' threats to the video and data business, Comcast Corp. chairman and CEO Brian Roberts told a packed National Show general-session audience here last Monday that continued innovation from cable operators will win the day.
"Fiber-optics is not going to win--it's what you do with it," Roberts told the audience. "One of the things that is great about the cable industry is that we have never lost our strategic go-for-it mentality. We just completed a $90 billion rewiring of America with fiber optics.
"If there is one thing you should take from that experience is we should not lose our aggressiveness on innovating. This industry is continually adjusting, despite the pressures we sometimes get from the...
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