Departure from Chicago-The analysts of the Walste trout who had been skeptical of Verizon Communications, who are actively working to lay optical fiber networks directly to each family, have joined the company's high-speed Internet and television services.He acknowledged that their judgment was incorrect because the number of people has increased rapidly.
Ivan Seidenberg, the CEO of Verizon, has more than 1 million subscriats at the company's "NXTComm" on June 20, US time.The FIOS TV "FIOS TV" said almost 500,000.
For the past three years, Verizon has laid an all optical fiber network "FIOS" in the entire service area of the company.The network can provide an optical fiber directly near each family, supply almost unlimited bandwidth, and provides a "triple play" service called high -speed Internet connection, telephone service, and television.The company has already provided 50Mbps Internet services and is currently testing 100 MPBS services.
米国最大の電話会社であるAT&Tは、ブロードバンドネットワークの展開に対してややリスクの低い戦略をとってきた。同社は、近隣までしか光ファイバが敷設せず、家庭内へのサービス提供には既存の銅線を用いている。VerizonのSeidenberg氏は、当初からオール光ファイバ型のネットワークが、今後の同社の成長に欠かせない優位性をもたらすと強く主張していた。2004年にVerizonがFiosの展開を開始したとき、道路を堀り、光ファイバを電柱からぶらさげるのに必要な180億ドルという同社の予算は、それに見合った結果が得られるとは思えないほど、高額でリスクが高すぎるという懐疑的な意見もあった。
But now, analysts have proven that those who were skeptical at the time were wrong.
Zachary Investment ResearchのエクイティーアナリストであるPatrick Comack氏は、「Seidenberg氏の行動は正しかった」と述べた。「そして（Ed）Whitacre氏（AT&Tの前CEO）は誤っていた。Seidenberg氏の勇気と長期的なビジョンを賞賛する」（Comack氏）
With the FIOS service, Verizon's business has changed dramatically.
"Five years ago, Verizon had 1.6 million," said Seidenberg in a keynote speech on the 20th."Sales due to data communication were less than 10 % of the telecom business. Today, we have more than 7 million broadband subscribers, very many video subscribers, and the sales for general consumers have increased again.It's been a long time in a long time. "(SEIDENBERG)
Most of this growth has been supported by the success of FIOS.The company has exploded the subscriber rate by expanding the development of the service in the last few months.As of the end of the first quarter of 2007, the number of subscribers of FIOS was 864,000, and the penetration rate was 16 %.And the number of subscribers recently reached 1 million.In addition, Verizon also provides videos to about 50 % of these subscribers.
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