Cable television companies in Europe, which were minor players in the initial wave of broadband Internet, are catching up quickly with new, super-fast networks that are siphoning customers from some of the Continent’s largest phone operators.In Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, cable TV companies now have a third to half of all broadband customers in each country and sell the fastest broadband service on their markets. They offer download speeds of 32 to 50 megabits per second, at least 10 times faster than the speeds available from leading phone operators.To read this report from The New York Times in full, see:
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Cable Mounts a Drive for Broadband in Europe
Cable television companies in Europe, which were minor players in the initial wave of broadband Internet, are catching up quickly with new, super-fast networks that are siphoning customers from some of the Continent’s largest phone operators.