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Article: Teaching an old dog new tricks: with cable increasingly putting the squeeze on its telco competition with bundles of voice, video and data, is the time right for telephone companies to outfit their copper fines for video services?
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- March 1, 2003
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Telephone companies are looking over their shoulders, casting a wary eye on cable operators that are taking away hundreds of thousands of voice customers and shaking the once-solid foundations of incumbent telephone operators. It's beginning to cause enough of a pinch that some are wondering if it will finally spur them to respond with a video-over-DSL service.
Technology companies are detecting some interest, though widescale deployment by incumbent telcos still appears to be a ways off. One reason is that affordable technology is just now coming on line. The other is cultural-can the old, incumbent telco dog essentially learn new tricks in time to stem the loss ...