Cablecos Escape the Noose - for the Moment.(Cable companies)(Brief...

The Online Reporter;  April 17, 2004 ;     269 words ......demands that the cable companies let third-party...upheld, the cable companies will have to...just like the phone companies do. The phone companies are required...the fees the cable companies charge is considered...

Experts Say Problems with Cable Companies, Bad Acquisitions Hurt At Home...

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  December 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ......against the nation's biggest phone companies to sell Americans high-spe...nation's four largest phone companies' digital subscriber line...amp;T, Charter and other cable companies say they have connected...the backing of powerful cable companies and sold a service ...

Cable firms pass phone companies in new customers.(Business)

The Birmingham Post (England);  May 20, 2008 ;     248 words ...Cable companies attracted more...subscribers than phone companies did in the first...The 19 largest cable companies in the US added...Research Group. Phone companies added 1.01 million...quarter of 2004, phone companies had been adding...widening, with ...

Cable Companies Appeal Ruling That Would Regulate Them like Telecom.

The Online Reporter;  April 10, 2004 ;     348 words ...Firms The cable companies Tuesday asked...way local phone companies are regulated. The cable companies fear that...and with the phone companies. Several cable...companies. The phone companies...regulated and the cable companies aren't. ...

Phone companies push to enter cable mix

Inland Valley Daily Bulletin;  April 20, 2005 ;     493 words ......make it easier for phone companies to provide television...Bill 903 would allow phone companies to offer video programming...competing cable and phone companies to enter a city already...law precludes small cable companies and other telecommunications...existing ...

Analysis: Today's US Supreme Court decision that cable companies do not...

NPR All Things Considered;  June 27, 2005 ;     634 words ......Internet. The cable companies involved in...regulations, the cable companies did not have...that, like the phone companies, which are considered...group. While phone companies may offer consumers...decision also gives cable companies the right to...don't ...

Cable companies don't have to share broadband access.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Florida) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News);  June 28, 2005 ;     587 words ......Court ruled Monday that cable companies needn't offer rival...share their lines. Cable companies, including Bright House...FCC voted to exempt cable companies from regulation under...current rules, the phone companies' DSL broadband is considered...industry on either ...

Cable Companies Don't Need to Share Lines

AP Online;  June 27, 2005 ;     437 words ......ruled on Monday that cable companies may keep rival Internet...from deep-pocketed cable companies. Judges should defer...million homes have cable broadband service. At issue is whether cable Internet access is...March 2002 to exempt cable companies from the strict ...

New Law Lets Phone Companies Offer TV

AP Online;  September 7, 2005 ;     146 words ......make it easier for phone companies to offer advanced...competition for cable companies. Perry said the...The bill will let phone companies get TV franchises...municipalities, as cable companies have had to do...provision will let big phone companies set ...

Panel Lifts Curbs on Cable, Phone Companies

Chicago Sun-Times;  March 23, 1995 ;     281 words ......lift many of the restrictions on telephone and cable companies. The Senate Commerce Committee approved, 17-2...Pressler (R-S.D.) that would free telephone and cable companies to enter businesses previously off-limits. Supporters...and conditions by which local and long-distance phone ...

Cable, phone companies take TV fight to capital.

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  March 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ......the two largest phone companies and a cable industry...this summer. Cable companies say the phone...Washington would give cable companies more equal footing...approach _ after phone companies have gained a...franchises that phone companies ...

TV 'bundles' now easier for phone companies

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  December 21, 2006 ;     396 words ......making it easier for phone companies to compete with cable companies to offer pay-TV subscriptions...and localities grant phone companies local franchises, allowing...report said. But where cable companies faced direct competition...channels. Also, they fear ...

Ohio Bell Joins List of Phone Companies Considering Entertainment Arm....

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  August 25, 1993 ;     545 words ......Just call your local phone company to sign up...directly with local cable companies for the business of...acquisitions (with cable companies to provide new video...the local monopolies cable companies enjoy. But if the change is taken too far, phone companies ...

Bell resale rules upheld. (Policy).(Baby Bell phone companies equipment...

Multichannel News;  May 20, 2002 ;     256 words ......that required Baby Bell phone companies to lease equipment to...Communications and other regional phone companies had challenged the legitimacy...which Verizon and other phone companies had complained were too...competition between local phone companies. The decision is ...

Residential Phone Customers' Move to Cable Calling Means Phone Companies...

PR Newswire;  October 30, 2007 ;     405 words ......cost the incumbent phone companies nearly eight billion...Corp. The incumbent phone companies are expected to lose...competition between phone companies and cable operators...service offered by cable companies is relatively new...revenue losses to the ...