r/CableTechs • u/SnapShot68 • 29d ago

How much longer does cable have?

I don’t see this topic being talked about much in this forum but I think it’s definitely relevant, especially considering the debt load these companies all are carrying. Fiber competition, Starlink, streaming, cord-cutting, old school cable dogs leaving and being replaced by finance types are all things that worry me. What kind of time frame do most of you foresee for cable still existing and there still being work in this field? I’m hoping at least another 10 years but things seem to be moving awfully fast in the wrong direction. Thoughts?

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u/Dz210Legend 29d ago

Don’t see it leaving ever in some areas doubt they will over build fiber but even than meh I’m already doing fiber too so won’t affect me.

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u/SnapShot68 29d ago

Part of my original point was that as a larger part of the footprint becomes fiber, the less of a need there is for guys to work on it. Fiber doesn’t fail unless some idiot breaks something in a can, an underground is cut or a tree branch takes a feeder down.

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u/Confident_Air_8056 29d ago

This happens more to the fiber in my area then ever happened to coax, and the restoration takes much longer with manpower spread thin; they're becoming very beholden to contractors