Aside from Cox Communications and RCN Metro, whose key executives Mark Kaish and Felipe Alvarez are former Bellheads, most cable operators tend to ignore magazines outside their cable rag comfort zone. So, if there’s one thing I’ve learned watching the cable guys from the corner of my eye, it’s that they’re fast learners....

Already passing main streets with coax, cable continues to target the low-hanging fruit: the small-to-midsize business (SMB) market that for the most part has been underserved by traditional ILECs. This has left cable operators with a nice opportunity to swoop in with bundled SMB packages. Comcast, for example, offers a promotional $99 a month triple-play deal for SMBs over their existing HFC and DOCSIS infrastructures.

Perhaps more compelling is the cable industry’s move into the larger business accounts, particularly in their delivery of Ethernet services. According to Vertical Systems Group’s 2007 market share report, Cox and Time Warner Cable made it into the report’s Top 10, beating out even large ILEC Qwest.

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