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Cord Cutting Is Hitting Comcast Harder Than Ever:
For a while there, everybody's least favorite cable company, Comcast, was weathering the cord cutting revolution fairly well. The company's losses on the cable TV side could simply be recouped over on its broadband side, where a monopoly protected it from having to actually, you know, try.
Things have shifted. Last year, Comcast saw a record 11 percent of its customer base cancel their Comcast cable service in favor of streaming video, over the air broadcasts, or free services like TikTok. And the company lost lost 440,000 traditional video customers in the fourth quarter of 2022 alone, a big bump over the 227,000 customers it lost in the last three months of 2021.
[...] At this rate Comcast may, someday in the not so distant future, be required to actually try.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 04, @06:01PM
> Its only advantage over electric is the current infrastructure isn't quite there,
Think a little harder. For a few examples:
Gasoline is truly "good to the last drop" -- performance doesn't suffer as the tank is emptied (batteries are damaged by running down too far).
Power remains relatively independent of temperature (battery range suffers in cold--I woke up to 0F this morning).
If I run out of gas, I can get a gallon jug relatively easily (for a Tesla it usually means a flat bed ride).
In smoggy areas, some of the latest ultra-low emission cars actually clean more of the traditional pollutants (HC, CO & NOX) than they contribute.
And the bottom line at the present time--electric cars cost a *lot* more than comparable IC cars.
There will be IC and IC/electric-hybrids for a long time.