EUROMEDIA
2015
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PrimaCom CEO:
‘Scale essential
in cable business’
oachim Grendel, CEO
of Germany’s fourthlargest cable MSO
PrimaCom, has
suggested his
company will
take a leading
role in market
consolidation,
arguing that
scale is
essential in
cable business.
Grendel made
his comments
during a panel
discussion of the
Telecom Executive
Circle in
Frankfurt, suggesting there will
only be a handful of operators in
the future. “Cable is a scale
business; we will in five years see
significantly fewer providers in
the market than today,” he
declared, drawing attention to
cable’s Internet bandwidth
advantages.
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“From today, 150 Mbps; in
the next few years we’ll move
towards 400 to 500 Mbps
speed. We have an exciting time
ahead of us - for the copper
cable on the other hand it will
be difficult.” Grendel pointed to
a “dramatic increase” in
household bandwidth needs.
“We now expect a doubling in
eight, nine months.”
PrimaCom’s hybrid fibre
Migration to DOCSIS 3.1
doesn’t have to be an
upstream battle
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network currently provides
access to over 1.2m connected
households.
Grendel
criticised the
German
government’s
broadband
subsidy
policies, which
he argued led
to an absurd
situation. “With
tax money,
operators and
also local
municipalities
are not building
fibre networks
in less densely-populated areas
(which the subsidies are actually
meant for), but are overbuilding
fibre in areas where fibre already
exists. So you end up with cities
like Munich, where four fibre
broadband operators are
competing against each other,
ultimately ruining margins.”
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