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Calling all hands! Prepare for high-speed battle.

By Baumgartner, Jeff
Publication: CED
Date: Wednesday, March 1 2000

CTAM suggests engineers and marketers meld minds

It's no secret that the number of residential cable modem customers who have a choice of high-speed Internet providers is growing rapidly. And if there isn't a competitive alternative in your cable market now, you can bet that there will be one, or two or three invading your market very soon.

The current land-based competition, namely DSL, ended 1999 with roughly 500,000 subscribers, a figure that lags far behind the approximately two million cable modem customers. Buoyed by efforts by the RBOCs and CLECs, how

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