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Cable elephantine Comcast is looking to the wireless concern for growth.
Comcast executives said Thursday the institution volition displacement its absorption to its mobile concern aft reporting a nonaccomplishment of 139,000 residential broadband customers during the 4th quarter. Broadband has agelong been the maturation motor of the cablegram manufacture particularly aft the exodus of cablegram TV customers.
Shares of Comcast fell much than 8% successful aboriginal trading Thursday.
Although gross has remained stable, Comcast, similar its cablegram peers, has been successful the midst of a slowdown successful lawsuit maturation successful caller years.
The slowdown stems for a fig of factors, including chiefly the emergence of wireless providers similar Verizon and T-Mobile offering location broadband options.
Company executives said during Thursday's net telephone with investors that the institution volition displacement its strategy to bundle mobile with broadband successful a bid for much customers.
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