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| But when we step back inside the company, we think about it, we’ve got the best networks, we’ve got the best products, I think, we have the best service and we can save customers money now and in the future, and I think that’s valuable |
| But we’re confident that we’ve got the best networks, the best products, the best service, the ability to save customers money |
| And the industry and us in particular, I think, we can do better |
| On the other hand, I would tell you inside Charter, all the way from the executive team down to the frontline employees, we are both really focused and actually really excited about what’s in front of us |
| The retention rate of these free lines has been better than we ever expected and we knew it because the data usage was very similar to any other line |
| Chris Winfrey … and an unmatched product inside the marketplace |
| You have an improving EBITDA profile of mobile that gets built in |
| It’s a unique opportunity |
| I think we’ve got the best service |
| Ben Swinburne You’ve had some pretty nice penetration gains in the early cohorts and you’ve got some good disclosures |
| It’s gigabit wireless everywhere we operate and I think that’s a real advantage in the wireline overbuild and in the cell phone internet space |
| So I think that’s one of -- we can talk about cost saving opportunities, but the biggest expense driver and benefit for the company is providing better service |
| So people are watching what we do and what we say, and my hope and expectation is that ACP and its predecessor programs have been very successful in connecting low-income households and keeping them connected |
| We have the best products |
| And we have that today and we have the best service, I think, and we have the willingness to continue to invest in it |
| You have the significant operational efficiencies out of all the investments that we made in our service and sales infrastructure, which is now behind us |
| I think because Charter, Comcast, Cox are all going on a DOCSIS 4.0 path means that you’re going to have a ubiquitous, symmetrical, multi-gig capability across the entire country, which for the first time provides a scaled platform for product and software developers to develop new products that only -- not only use that bandwidth and that data and that seamless connectivity, but actually require it and I think that’s good for all of our businesses |
| Chris Winfrey You get that through the investments that we’ve already made inside of our employees and I think that plus the digitization of our systems provides operating leverage for many, many years to come |
| So it’s pretty exciting inside the company |
| When you call in, do you want the rookie or do you want the tenured agent? Of course you want the tenured agent and if they’re committed to the company because they see a career and the opportunity to earn more, do better for their family, they’re actually better for our customers in addition to their tenure |
| And in addition, now we have the benefit that we can actually add mobile and drive convergence across 100% of our footprint, which is something they can’t do |
| It’s been very good |
| But at the same time, when we think about the long-term potential of what we have, we have the best networks |
| And I think we have opportunities to do that in a way that’s faithful to the long-term value creation of the business |
| And that’s our strategy and it’s also that strategy that we’ve deployed is also what creates some financial headroom so that when you’re in one of these cycles, that you have the ability to continue to grow EBITDA even though a temporary cycle |
| We’ve got a great interface to be able to do that |
| But from a retention standpoint, it’s been fantastic |
| In fact, the more mobile lines we have, the better the returns get |
| So getting both the highest amount of customer penetration, but also penetrating each household with as many products as we can; one, because it saves us more money -- it saves the customer more money; two, it gets more revenue out of the household; three, it lowers churn and service transactions per product; and the overall cost for passing and the overall cost for customer relationship, both from an operating cost, as well as from capital cost, goes down, which allows you to be more competitive inside the marketplace |
| And our network is best positioned to do that and I don’t think people are looking for necessarily just connectivity to one particular device inside the home |
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| It feels like a long time ago, but it was actually very difficult to get service |
| And what I said back in November was, when you think about all the cable M&A that we’ve done over the years, some of those acquisitions required us to reprice the product in the marketplace, which is a negative synergy |
| Our larger issue has been a significant reduction in the amount of gross ads |
| I know we don’t want to hyper focus on one or two quarters, but it’s been a couple quarters of underperformance in broadband relative to expectations, at least |
| I think the bigger question for Spectrum One and mobile lines in particular will be, if you’re in a temporarily depressed environment for internet gross additions, you have less selling opportunity |
| Chris Winfrey The attractiveness of CBRS has only gotten better |
| And I would argue that our connectivity services are underpenetrated relative to their potential now and in the future, particularly when we move into a DOCSIS 4 environment |
| And that’s a result of a lower move environment, it’s the result of ongoing, consistent wireline overbuild, which will tap out at some point, not too far in the distant future right there, not too distant future |
| Our attrition for sales and service frontline has never been lower that I’ve seen or measured and we’re now at a point where our tenure is back to where it was and starting to increase and throughout all of that, our transactions per customer relationship have continued to decline and it’s beginning to decline faster, particularly in the area like mobile, as we get that tenure inside |
| It’s a little bit harder to see on the gross addition side in the current marketplace where you’ve got all these other factors that we’ve talked about |
| Anytime you have a new competitor inside of a marketplace and a particular set of passings, you see the initial disruption |
| Ben Swinburne …that’s something like, I feel like it was a big focus, maybe a year, year and a half ago and it’s kind of died down a little bit among investors |
| Let’s talk about BEAD, which has still a lot of uncertainty around what the rules are going to be |
| I mean, I’d start by saying we clearly recognize the uncertainty and a bit of volatility in the capital markets |
| I know that drives people crazy, but it’s true |
| But my reaction to that is the only way that you get that incrementally low price point is because you’re overpaying on a mobile line |
| But the reality is that there will be an income -- there will be an impact to low income customers if the program isn’t renewed |
| And that all taking place at the same time is really what’s driven -- what is under performance relative to our own expectations and what we know is the long-term potential because we think we’re under-penetrated |
| Some of that comes about from the success that we had through the pandemic and pull-forward, significant pull-forward, and then on top of that, you have a generationally low amount of move activity, which means lower selling opportunities, and even though it’s inferior, you have some new competition, which is bad timing |
| I’ve heard people say, well, we don’t believe in convergence |
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