Videotron is a leader in new technologies with its interactive Digital TV service and its broadband network, which supports high-speed cable Internet access, analog and digital cable television, and other services.
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Basic copper and cable internet access cannot run faster than about 5 megabits per second, which is just about fast enough to watch something on YouTube or for a video chat over Skype.
Perhaps hitting closer to home were the comments of Chairman Joe Barton (R-Tex.), who told Whitacre in his opening comments how he's shutting off service on a phone line coming into his house and planning to use a cable modem for Internet access.
The biggest growth area for cable is in high-speed Internet access market, of which cable holds two-thirds (DSL has about one-third and is trending lower).
Additional growth opportunities for Televisa lie in "triple-play" packages of cable, telephone and Internet access.
At present only 20% of cable customers also get Internet access from their providers.
Higher ratings translate into more advertising revenue, even though Comcast gets two-thirds of its revenue as a cable-TV and Internet access provider.
The dungeon was further kitted out with a chair, a television, and what appeared to be cable access to the internet, officers said.
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SitiCable plans to offer Internet access over cable in a dozen cities within the next six months and is pondering ways to raise the money.
Even PLDT, which already operates a cable-TV system and an Internet service provider, is planning to offer cable Net access, "maybe before the end of 1999, " says Samson.
It has moved fastest in Mumbai, where it has laid 150 km of fibre-optic cable and is now offering speedy Internet access to the first of its 1.9m customers in the city.
Bill Gates has a long history of making investments in cable companies with the hopes that it will secure Microsoft (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people) software a significant role in the technology used for high-speed Internet access and for cable set-top boxes that deliver interactive TV.
With networks of wire already running into homes all over the country, cable companies can now deliver high-speed internet access.
As of June, 2011, 95% of all Americans had access to broadband Internet from cable, DSL, fiber or other wired services.
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For the moment only a few cable companies operating in the European Union offer Internet access, but this option is certain to grow, Sarkar said.
Since most kids now have access to cable TV, the Internet, unlimited talk and texting, college and a world of opportunities that was unimaginable even 20 years ago, it seems that adults have responded by becoming ever more overprotective and thin-skinned.
Then in the 2000s, the rise of DSL and cable modems made paying AOL a monthly fee for Internet access seem increasingly unnecessary.
Cable operators are still enjoying growth in their Internet-access broadband business.
It stuffs a hard drive that can store music, photos and video into a box with a DVD player, Internet access and a satellite or digital cable decoder.
The FCC is even asking if radio should still be considered a discrete market, in which ownership restrictions are evaluated as if consumers didn't have access to the Internet, digital cable and satellite, wireless Palm handhelds and the myriad other noisy forms of media that intrude on their daily existence.
Third, even if you have a single basestation, you still have to have a cable to it somewhere, if only to access the Internet.
Then came premium networks, and tiers of service, and pay-per-view, and internet access... and today, cable operators are selling everything from phone service to interactive gaming.
Think of Apple not permitting apps on the iPhone that compete with Apple services, or a cable company barring access to specific VoIP services on the Internet.
Compaq also announced its new Triple Play broadband Internet access program, which offers customers a choice of three high-speed Net access options: cable modem, DSL, and satellite.
But consider what the last 25 years have brought to small towns: cheap overnight delivery service, cable television, USA Today, national retail chains, Internet access, cell phone coverage and broadband.
They point out that only around half of America's cable systems are modern enough to offer consumers high-speed Internet access.
Access to private high-speed Internet networks through cable and telephone companies was pretty limited.
When the cable was completed in July 2009, it promised to bring cheap internet access across the region.
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Just remember you are a cable companies best customer, if you are anything like us you have Internet access, phone etc.
Besides, she deducted lounge wear, a robe, sportswear, lingerie, an Ohio State jersey, jewelry, running shoes, dry cleaning, business gifts, cable TV, contact lenses, cosmetics, gym memberships, haircuts, Internet access, self-defense classes, and her subscriptions to Cosmo, Glamour, Newsweek, and Nickelodeon.
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