Level 3 and Video
Dennis Berman and Shawn Young write in The Wall Street Journal about the Level 3 Communications purchase of TelCove Inc.
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Level 3 will gain access to new infrastructure on the East Coast, including 22,000 miles of data-transmission lines serving 70 markets.
This factoid is especially interesting:
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“Over 50% of the traffic on our network is video,” a number far greater than in years past, said Level 3 Chief Executive James Crowe in an interview last night. “That is what’s driving traffic. It’s no different than the economy broadly. Broadband adoption is the enabler.”