COMMTECH 2009: Opportunity remains, options open, for serving small business

KELOWNA – Serving businesses with voice and data – especially small enterprises – is something all operators are focused on, be they telco or cable. But for cable, its networks are only beginning to stretch into the various business parks and malls which have generally had the choice of just one provider: the incumbent telco. Some cable companies, the most widely cited being Mountain Cablevision in Hamilton, Ont., have been able – by investing and taking advantage of their own local, SMB roots – to rapidly sign up business customers within its cable territories. The company has added a lucrative...