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• NOTEBOOK

  - 1999-03-08

  Educational exemptions from copyright rules should extend to digital transmissions, APTS, CPB and PBS told Library of Congress LOC March 3. In reply comments on LOC rulemaking on promoting distance learning, they asked that exemptions currently covering college courses be extended to K-12 education. Public broadcasters also reiterated...

  Tags: AT&T Corp., conference, FCC, fiber, FINANCE, Government, Investment, merger, network, notebook, Qwest Communications Inc., revenue, TCI, The Library of Congress

• RELTEC Awarded Project by TCI to Deploy Deep Fiber Solutions for Voice/Video/Data

  - 1998-09-24

  CLEVELAND--BUSINESS WIRE--Sept. 24, 1998--RELTEC Corporation (NYSE:RLT) today announced that TCI Telecommunications, Inc., the cable television operating unit of Tele-Communications, Inc. TCI, has awarded RELTEC a multi-million dollar campus residential project to deploy RELTEC's DISC*SR fiber-to-the-curb Next Generation Digital Loop Carrier NGDLC system. The project, located at The Village development in...

  Tags: fiber, TCI

• TCI ponders networking options; spells out fiber upgrade plans. (Tele-Communications Inc.)

  - 1997-02-10

  Tele-Communications Inc. will take a measured approach to current and future network construction, aiming to keep costs down and to economically justify each tweak. Meanwhile, the MSO - despite sweeping budget cuts late last year that capped capi Tele-Communications Inc. will take...

  Tags: fiber, network, satellite, TCI

• Fiber deals land TCI's Sniezko '97 Polaris Award. (optical fiber; TCI Communications Corp.; Oleh Sniezko)

  - 1997-01-13

  NASHVILLE, TENN. - Oleh Sniezko, director of transmission engineering for TCI Communications Inc., last week won the 1997 Polaris Award, which is given annually to an individual who excels in the advancement of optical technologies. Sniezko accep NASHVILLE, TENN. - Oleh Sniezko,...

  Tags: fiber, optical fiber, TCI

• TCI details new architecture. (Tele-Communications Inc.; network architecture)

  - 1995-04-03

  Tele-Communications Inc. last week detailed plans for a new, flexible network architecture, designed to optimize fiber usage and make the No. 1 MSO ready for a variety of advanced services like telephony, video-on-demand, high-speed data and interact Tele-Communications Inc. last week detailed plans for a new,...

  Tags: fiber, network, network architecture, TCI

• Cable vets plot fiber overbuild of TCI Hartford. (Tele-Communications Inc.)

  - 1993-07-26

  Tele-Communications Inc.'s multichannel competitors in the 136,500-home Hartford, Conn. franchise could soon include direct-broadcast satellite, video dial tone and, well, cable. By year's end, pending a duplicate franchise grant from the state D Tele-Communications Inc.'s multichannel competitors in the 136,500-home Hartford,...

  Tags: cable, fiber, TCI

• TCI's $1.9B pledge for superhighway. (Tele-Communications Inc.; national fiber optic superhighway)(includes related article)

  - 1993-04-19

  DENVER -- Tele-Communications Inc. threw down a $1.9 billion information superhighway gauntlet last week, pledging to lay 7,000 miles of 24-strand fiber optic cable over the next four years. The announcement was expected. TCI estimated that by 19 DENVER -- Tele-Communications Inc....

  Tags: fiber, fiber-optics, John Malone, TCI

• TCI kicks off $2 billion fiber upgrade. (Tele-Communications Inc.)

  - 1993-04-19

  While unveiling details last week for a $2 billion overhaul of the cable systems owned by Tele-Communications Inc., company president and CEO John Malone said new rate regulation is not expected to affect TCI's ability to invest in the new technolo While unveiling details...

  Tags: fiber, John Malone, TCI

• TCI's consolidation of Denver headends nearly complete. (Tele-Communications Inc.; Denver, Colorado)

  - 1993-03-01

  DENVER -- When Tele-Communications Inc. implements its plan to create a "super headend" in western Pennsylvania, the MSO may find a working model in its nearly completed consolidation of systems in Denver. Now about 90 miles into a ...

  Tags: fiber, TCI

• U S West planning massive video broadband networks.

  - 1993-02-08

  US West Inc. last week upped the ante in the advanced network sweepstakes with a commitment to installing U.K.-like broadband networks throughout its 14-state operating territory over the next decade or so. The company said it would have a tes ...

  Tags: broadband network, cable, fiber, network, TCI, Thomson Corp., video