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At Element, we know how busy you are running your business. With Element and CSG Systems, we free you up from back office operations to focus on growing your business. In addition, we also stay on top of industry news and trends. We apply this information to our billing services and customer support system.

Call it future proofing. Call it news watching. Call it what you will, but we’ll keep you in the know for industry information. We don’t want you worrying if our services are the industry’s latest and greatest. You should feel comfortable knowing we are up-to-speed in real time.

Empowered by leading technologies and proven solutions, Element, with its partner CSG, has been at the forefront of customer care and billing solutions for the cable/broadband industry for over 22 years.

 

Latest Cable News (June 2008)

Study: Cable industry employs 1.5M nationwide
The U.S. cable industry accounts for 1.5 million jobs nationwide, representing nearly $62 billion in personal income and a gross economic output of about $227 billion, according to a study by Bortz Media and Sports Group that has been released by the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA).

Between 2002 and 2007, direct and indirect employment attributable to the cable industry increased by almost 367,000 jobs, the study found, which accounted for nearly 5 percent of all net new jobs created by the U.S. economy during that five-year period.

And a major source of the industry’s job growth and economic impact can be attributed to its aggressive re-investment of capital – $130 billion since 1996 – to develop broadband infrastructure that is now available to 92 percent of U.S. households, the study found.

According to the study:

  • The cable industry directly employs 365,300 workers; cable operators with 7,000 local cable systems directly employed 229,000 people nationwide who earned more than $14 billion in compensation.
  • Program networks provide direct employment to 46,500 people and directly and indirectly accounted for 767,000 U.S. jobs representing almost $30 billion in personal income; gross economic output attributable to the program network industry amounts to more than $100 billion.
  • Between 2002 - 2006, the number of national basic and digital cable programming networks grew from 308 to 565, and viewing of basic cable programming networks increased more than two and a half times from the 1994-95 to the 2006-07 seasons.
  • The cable industry’s annual contributions to charities, nonprofit organizations and state/municipal budgets is more than $6.5 billion.

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