Wash Post: D* & E* face slower growth in 2007

[FTA Michael]

"'The critical test for satellite is how successful they are at maintaining subscriber growth in the face of a slowing housing market and competition from cable,' said Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein.

"...For EchoStar, the expectation it might one day be taken over by telecommunications partner AT&T Inc. (T.N) still remains a factor, said analysts."

Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020601389.html

[lwilli201]

Interesting article. There are no numbers there that would tell me that cable is gaining on DBS. Comcast increase in subs is only half of D* or Dish additional subs. I would like to see the increase in subs shown as percentage of increase for each company. The numbers shown would indicate that D* and Dish would both have a larger percentage of increase in subs.