Are overbuilders keeping pace? Whether competitive cablecos have a place in the broadband...

In the midst of the telecommunications boom, a few cable TV visionaries saw an opportunity to ride the venture capital crest by securing funding to compete head-to-head with the industry's incumbent establishment. Lofty business plans in hand, new "overbuilders" promised VC funders the heads of their MSO competition ... in exchange for a brand new, built-from-scratch, robust, fiber-rich, IP-based, state-of-the-art hybrid fiber/coax network that would deliver their brand of differentiated services. Their portfolios were to include IP voice,, tiered digital data service and hundreds