28 Oct
2002
28 Oct
'02
12:45 p.m.
On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 11:05:44 EST, alex@yuriev.com said:
They take a total revenue that's somehow gets associated with selling cable and divide it by the price of the basic cable. The resulting number is the number of subscribers that they claim to have.
This of course is perfectly fine, as long as all subscribers are only paying the basic rate. Adjusting for the number of people who pay for premium services such as movie packages or cable-internet services without knowing the number of people that have that package is left as an exercise for the auditors and/or prosecutors... ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech