Digital home services to take off in Europe

Digital home services to take off in Europe

According to Booz Allen Hamilton, digital home services (TV, broadband Internet and telephony) are likely to take off this year. Competition for the digital home will be fierce, with telcos and cablecos operating in the same space. But telcos have an advantage over cablecos in the race for the digital home, both in financial resources and size of customer base (151m for telcos vs 51m for cablecos); and both are key for success. The bill for rolling out triple-play services will amount to €100bn by 2010, of which €35m on new content.