We did some soul-searching. Was the cable industry obsolete? Was it an opportune time to get out? Our conclusion was that if you rebuilt your system with this new fiber-optic coaxial hybrid - which we now call broadband - the glass was half full, not half empty. We could compete.

我们做了一些自我反省。有线电视行业过时了吗?现在出去合适吗?我们的结论是，如果你用这种新的光纤同轴混合器(我们现在称之为宽带)重建你的系统，玻璃就会是半满的，而不是半空的。我们可以竞争。