Telephone companies have been losing the battle for broadband subscriptions in the US, as cable companies have been more successful delivering faster speeds to more households. Telecoms can match those speeds to only about 30% of homes today and it would not be economically feasible for telecoms to build out national networks that offer the same speeds as cable, but they do not have to. 

In this recorded webinar, Bain’s Ron Kermisch and Jason Chapman discuss the new technologies that make it more economical for telecoms to deliver speeds faster than DSL—and fast enough to meet consumers’ needs to most US neighborhoods. These technologies include more efficient and economical ways to deploy fiber-optic cable, as well as get better speeds out of the copper wires that bring voice telephone service to nearly all households in the US.

For more information, see the Bain Brief: Is it too soon to declare cable the winner of the broadband wars?