Comments on: Time Warner or Time Waffler? http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: GigaOM » And Time Warner wanted to sell its cable business http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142053 Wed, 02 May 2007 21:39:27 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142053 [...] (Time Warner Cable) as a separate company, and instead focus on the content part of the business. Terrible idea, and hopefully the management realized that after its own first quarterly earnings [...]

]]> By: Kapil Gupta http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142052 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:19:25 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142052 I think its a case of competitor envy and the grass being greener on the other side… perhaps they look at Fox which hit a home run with Myspace and think “we should do something like that”.

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Needless to say, somewhat shortsighted…

]]> By: RandomThoughts http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142048 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:56:01 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142048 Despite what CableLabs would have you believe, cable really does face some very serious challenges in the near term. They will be hard pressed to compete with Verizon’s and AT&T’s fiber offerings without huge investments in their networks. That could be one reason why TW wants to off the C.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142051 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:42:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142051 Jacomo,

when that Earthlink network works, they should consider buying it then. I think what TIme warner needs to do is get its house in order. If there is a company will all the assets to win in the post broadband world, it is Time Warner, if only they can get out of their own way. Politics killed many a great company, and why should it be any different this time around.

]]> By: jacomo http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142050 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 18:32:42 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142050 What they should be doing is buying Earthlink so they can get access to the Wireless Mesh Network these folks are building nationwide.
They already have made attempts at bidding on Muni Wireless Metworkswithout much if any success.
When combined with the new AWS (Cell) spectrum they own and Sprints partnership to build this voice network they would be able to effectively compete with AT&T and Verizon Wireless in their markets.

Jacomo

]]> By: NewTeeVee » Time Warner’s Cable Debate Spills Out http://gigaom.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142049 Tue, 17 Apr 2007 17:10:00 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/04/17/time-warner-or-time-waffler/#comment-142049 [...] distribution, it’s unclear that Time Warner could acquire the chops to do it right. Om rekindles memories of the AOL acquisition of 2000 at GigaOM: If they did go down this route it would be ironic, not to [...]

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