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Article: Lovasco's lament. (Gaspare Lovasco's belief in viability of cable television and telephone companies working together to build fiber-to-customer plant) (The Cutting Edge) (Column)
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- Multichannel News
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- September 16, 1991
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Gaspare Lovasco, Pacific Bell's fiber-in-the-loop project manager, is a low-key, affable fellow whose work demands that he know what his counterparts in cable TV are up to.
He's also the kind of guy cablers will someday know far better than they do today. Lovasco genuinely believes everybody would be better off if the cable and telephone industries could cooperate on the building of fiber-to-customer plant.
But he thinks that task is getting harder for at least a couple of reasons. For one thing, it's so economical for cable ops to install fiber that the business imperative that some had hoped would drive ops to discussions with local telcos has been ...