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cable and video service

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Divergence rises as new buzzword: cable advances on new means to distribute video service.
As the millennium dawned, the buzz was all about convergence. Companies merged and products were packaged into bundles, offering consumers more products that operators hoped they would buy from a single provider. But as telecom experts look o ...
Tags: cable, cell phone, company, Cox Communications Inc., network, phone, SBC Communications Inc., telecommunications company, video, video service
Research articles 2005-08-30
New video rules must protect public.(Opinion)
Lobbying is fast and furious over rules that could change the way Michigan regulates companies selling video services to consumers. The battle pits local governments and cable TV companies (which already sell Internet-based phone services) against Lobbying is fast and furious over rules...
Tags: AT&T Corp., cable, company, video, video service
Research articles 2006-05-15
SBC selling LA wireless cable: management buyout said to be most likely scenario.(SBC Communications, Pacific Bell Video Services digital wireless cable operation)
SBC Communications is actively shopping its Pacific Bell Video Services digital wireless cable operation in Los Angeles and Orange counties. A deal to sell the business may not be far off. While at least one cable MSO and a California utilit...
Tags: cable, management buyout, SBC Communications Inc., video service, wireless
Research articles 1997-12-08
Two giants launch video service: Verizon teams with Microsoft to enter TV business midyear.(Technology)
As the line between phone companies and cable companies blurs, Verizon is the latest telco to get into the TV game. Teaming up with Microsoft, the world's largest software company, Verizon is transforming itself into a TV-delivery powerhouse. ...
Tags: cable, IP television, Microsoft Corp., software, software giant, team, telecommunications company, TV, Verizon Communications Inc., video, video service
Research articles 2005-02-07
Time Warner dials up Rochester, N.Y. (Time Warner Cable plans telephone service)
MSO could offer local service by next year; telco eyes cable, video market A breakthrough deal with a local telephone company and state regulators has cleared the way for Time Warner Cable to enter the local telephone business in Rochester,...
Tags: cable, network, phone, regulator, telecommunications company, telephone service, Time Warner Cable Inc., Time Warner Inc., video, video service
Research articles 1994-05-23
Connecticut taking a closer look: Regulators seek info on SBC, Verizon plans for video services.(SBC Communications Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., Connecticut. Department of Public Utility Control)
In what could be a groundbreaking move, utility regulators in Connecticut are attempting to determine if they have the authority to regulate SBC Communications Inc.'s planned Internet-delivered video service. "No one else is doing this i In what...
Tags: cable, regulator, SBC Communications Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., video, video service
Research articles 2005-09-05
Anaheim Calls on FCC to Reduce Regulations and Increase Competition in Video Franchising
ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Mayor Curt Pringle, on behalf of the City of Anaheim, filed comments today with the Federal Communications Commission FCC encouraging federal reforms that increase competition in the cable and video service marketplace and encourage new delivery methods. The FCC is soliciting comments to help the commission implement...
Tags: cable, FCC, IP television, video, video service
Research articles 2006-03-29
Bills back Bells' video entry.(Bipartisan legislation would help Baby Bells)
Bipartisan legislation introduced last Thursday would allow the Baby Bells to provide video service without a franchise in communities where they already have access to local rights of way. The House bill was introduced by Reps. Marsha Blackbu Bipartisan...
Tags: cable, video, video service
Research articles 2005-07-04
PacBell taking cable's best subs in S. Calif. (Pacific Bell Video Services signed 10,000 cable television subscribers in Southern California)
Pacific Bell Video Services has signed 10,000 customers since its soft launch began, executives said last week, confirming cable operator assertions that the Southern California newcomer has only begun to nibble at their customer bases. Pacific Bell Video Services has signed 10,000 customers since...
Tags: cable, cable television, video service
Research articles 1997-10-06
Hundt has dialtone on fast track. (Federal Communications Commissioner Reed Hundt will speed up application process for telephone companies seeking permission to offer video services, known as video dialtone)
Chairman says speeding up application process will result in more video competition FCC Chairman Reed Hundt is not waiting for legislation to move forward on the imformation superhighway. With the backing of Commissioners Andrew Barrett ...
Tags: cable, FCC, phone, Reed Hundt, video, video service
Research articles 1994-04-18
BellSouth Launches Trial Cable Television, Video Services.(Originated from The Atlanta Journal and Constitution)
ATLANTA--May 31--BellSouth Corp. has launched a trial of cable television and video services, an 18-month venture that will lead the huge phone company into foreign terrain against entrenched rivals. ATLANTA--May 31--BellSouth Corp. has launched a trial of cable television and video services, an 18-month venture that...
Tags: BellSouth Corp., cable, cable television, TV, video, video service
Research articles 1996-05-31
Telco gets green light for wireless. (local-exchange carriers; video services over wireless networks)
Local-exchange carriers can become providers of video services over wireless networks without running afoul of the cable-telco cross-ownership prohibition, according to a recent ruling at the Federal Communications Commission. The decision, promp Local-exchange carriers can become providers of video services over ...
Tags: cable, FCC, microwave, network, technology, telecommunications company, video, video service, wireless, wireless network
Research articles 1993-09-13
Operators say telcos overstate VDT earnings. (video dial tone)
Cable operators charge that new details released by two telephone companies planning video dial tone service show the services will lose money and may be improperly controlled by the phone companies. Ameritech Corp. and U S West Inc. are the first Cable operators...
Tags: Ameritech, cable, cable company, phone, phone company, video, video service
Research articles 1994-06-06
Groups oppose Contel waiver request at FCC. (Contel of California Inc. seeks to build and operate broadband facility in San Bernardino County to provide cable, television and video services)
Groups Oppose Contel Waiver Request at FCC WASHINGTON - Despite feuding between their industries, cable and broadcast groups agreed in separate filings to the FCC last week that Contel of California Inc. should not be allowed to build and operat Groups...
Tags: broadband, cable, FCC, TV, video, video service
Research articles 1990-04-23
Comcast Cable, a cable and broadband communications provider that delivers video services to more than 10,000 properties and 650,000 hotel rooms, now provides a high-speed Internet solution for guestrooms, meeting rooms and hotel public spaces
Comcast Cable, a cable and broadband communications provider that delivers video services to more than 10,000 properties and 650,000 hotel rooms, now provides a high-speed Internet solution for guestrooms, meeting rooms and hotel public spaces. Comcast introduced Comcast HospitalityONE, a single-provider solution to the hospitality industry. Amelia Island Plantation, a...
Tags: cable, Comcast Corp., High-speed Internet, video, video service
Research articles 2004-06-07
SBC looks for a slice of cable by using Microsoft software for video services.
By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Sanford Nowlin, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Tags: cable, Microsoft Corp., software, video, video service
Research articles 2004-11-18
Tauke predicts passage of telco-entry bill. (Tom Tauke; Congressional approval of telephone company ownership of video services)
Former representative says Congress will lift ban on telco crossownership by 1995 Congress is certain to pass legislation on telephone company entry into the video business by the end of 1994, says former representative Tom Tauke (R-Iowa). ...
Tags: cable, phone, telecommunications company, telephone company, U.S. Congress, video, video service
Research articles 1993-09-27
Bells close Disney video services deal: basic services to be delivered by year's end; interactive offerings delayed until late '96.
Basic services to be delivered by year's end; interactive offerings delayed until late '96 Surprising no one, Disney has entered into an entertainment programing and distribution venture with three regional Bell operating companies to deliver lin Basic services to be delivered by...
Tags: Ameritech, BellSouth Corp., cable, Disney Corp., network, phone, SBC Communications Inc., TV, video, video service
Research articles 1995-04-24
GTE, cable fight over Ventura Superhighway. (GTE Video Services)
As of this week Ventura County, Calif., may be one of the most competitive areas in the country. GTE Video Services is upping the ante in this Los Angeles suburb by jumping from 79 channels to 160 as it converts to digital. ...
Tags: cable, video service
Research articles 1997-11-10
PacTel jumps on AT&T bandwagon. (PacTel Cable; interactive television)
AT&T joined with Pacific Telesis Video Services last Thursday to launch an interactive television trial in Milpitas, Calif. The announcement came just days after AT&T and GTE Telephone Inc. spelled out plans for a nearly identical trial in AT&T joined with Pacific Telesis...
Tags: AT&T Corp., cable, video service
Research articles 1994-01-24
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