Networks rely on having a certain amount of revenue coming from cable providers to pay for their shows.
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The company offers gear designed to help cable and phone companies squeeze more video capacity out of a limited amount of bandwidth as consumers watch video clips on their computers, demand more channels from their cable companies, and even start to watch television on their wireless phones.
Alan Bates, managing director of Guernsey Electricity, said with the cable link being unavailable for much of 2012 the amount of emissions would rise when last year's figures are produced.
Comfortable in the knowledge their couch-potato customers would pony up whatever amount showed up on their monthly tab, cable companies pushed price hikes through like clockwork.
Worldcom was one of the first carriers to deploy a newfangled technology called "dense wavelength division multiplexing" (FORBES, Oct. 7, 1997) that greatly increases the amount of traffic an existing fiber-optic cable can carry.
Comcast has a data cap of 250 GB for its cable modem customers and a number of ISPs are limiting the amount of data you can use every month.
According to Nielsen, the increase in TV advertising spending tracks the amount of live TV sports content available on TV and cable.
City officials acknowledge that the open air cable cars, which ply only eight miles of track, produce a disproportionate amount of accident-related costs.
The report found the amount of gas produced by generating electricity had dropped by 75% since the cable link with France, via Jersey, allowed energy imports from 2001.
If you use a cable modem, your first choke point is much closer to you since you share a maximum amount of bandwidth with other users in your neighborhood, which is why your data rate varies.
Business execution was strong, especially in the cable content division, and the company continued its shareholder friendly behavior, both repurchasing a significant amount of stock and announcing that it would be splitting the company into two separate entities.
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But since these are linked by undersea cable to its mainland, they can only be placed around 50km from the shore, reducing the amount of advance warning they give of imminent waves.
It seems to be a good season for broadcasters and cable networks with ad pricing picking up for the new TV season, as indicated by the hefty amount that News Corp has received.
Starz has a fair amount of newer movies and could have been prompted to act more aggressively due to the encouragement of cable companies that feel threatened by Netflix.
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Hastings has tried to position Netflix as a supplement to cable-TV subscriptions, but that argument will become more difficult to make as Internet streaming cuts down the amount of time people spend watching traditional TV, Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said.
The danger was compounded by an overhead power cable, which broke loose and fell on the roof of the rear car, causing further arcing and a large amount of smoke inside the train.
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