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According to the NCTA, the cable VoIP subscriber base added 228, 000 users from the second to third quarters of this year, a 161% jump.
FORBES: Cable Companies Dish Data
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The old guard, NCTA and the MPAA, is being represented by Michael Power -- yes, the previous Chairman of the FCC -- and Michael O'Leary, respectively.
ENGADGET: Congress to hold a hearing tomorrow on the Future of Video HD
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The U.S. cable industry now has 25 million digital cable customers, 20 million high-speed Internet customers and 3 million telephone customers, according to the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA).
FORBES: Cable Companies Dish Data
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He served as president of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA) from 1979 to 1984, and later took the helm of the CTIA as its president and CEO from 1992 until 2003.
ENGADGET
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All or none of these are a possibility, but considering the comments by the NCTA and its members, it is nieve to believe that these are anywhere near guaranteed at this point.
ENGADGET: FCC to bring down new CableCARD rules in October 14th meeting
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The NCTA has already starting posturing on its blog, Cable Tech Talk, with a post highlighting all the wonderful changes in the video distribution industry in the past 20 years -- however, curiously, the upwardly creeping price of the average bill wasn't mentioned.
ENGADGET: Congress to hold a hearing tomorrow on the Future of Video HD
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Update: We received some clarification from the NCTA. Apparently in point number two, the word interface does not mean user interface, but at the same time the NCTA does believe that certain user interface screens should be required to be provided by the operator.
ENGADGET: CableCARD or AllVid, software choice is the key to innovation