Description: Cable companies can’t sign up any more people. In fact, they’re losing them to the Internet. So the only way to survive is to monopolize more of the market and up-sell subscribers just as Comcast-Time Warner Cable will do.

Source: TheDailyBeast .com

Date: Feb 14, 2014

Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/13/why-would-comcast-innovate-or-cut-prices-when-it-could-buy-time-warner-cable-instead.html

Questions for discussion:

• What is happening to the cable and related industries that distribute entertainment content such as television?
• How is management responding?
• How should management respond?