Thursday, December 19, 2013 Inquirer Daily News  How Comcast is
beating Verizon  "The U.S. video business is now growing roughly
50% faster than the U.S. wireless business," notes Sanford C.
Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett  How Comcast is beating Verizon
Cable-company revenues per subscriber are up 5.3% over the last
year, vs just 3.6% for wireless, notes Craig Mofett, telecom
analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein Research.  That's because
wireless is competitive : Verizon vs AT&T Mobility vs T-Mobile
vs Sprint vs MetroPCS or Leap (and both, uniquely, in
Philadelphia), vs resellers like Virgin Mobile and Tracfone and
regionals like US Cellular and Cox...  While cable is still
local-monopolistic: You get Comcast or TimeWarner Cable or
Cablevision or Cox...  So wireless prices are dropping, while
cable prices are going up. "Five years ago, when cable broadband
was introduced at around $40, consensus expectations projected
that prices would fall by as much as a third by now. Instead,
they've risen."  And wireless, Mo