Coming soon: triple play: the telecoms and cable providers are storming into town promising an exciting new world of bundled voice, internet access, and video services. But can they deliver?

Builder, October, 2005 by Zurier, Steve

If you want to hear some plain talk about the frenzied competition between the Baby Bells and the cable providers to market bundled services, seek out Randy Luther, vice president of construction technology for Centex Homes in Dallas.

When Luther talked with Builder, he admitted he was doubling back, taking an especially hard look at packages from the Baby Bells, also known as regional Bell operating companies (RBOCs). But Luther says none of the RBOCs can service all the needs of the country's fourth-largest home builder, and the cable providers are just getting their feet wet with digital telephone service. So, for now, he hasn't signed a national deal and is still letting the regional divisions of Centex make their own voice, Internet, and entertainment...