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.
Proof: OWN drew a 0.9 rating (1 million viewers) in prime-time, enough to make the newly launched network the third most-watched basic cable net for the night (behind power-houses ESPN and USA) in the Oprah-friendly women 25-54 demo, according to preliminary figures from Nielsen.
No great tonnage of steel here: Its curving roof is a tensioned cable-net that resembles the strings of a tennis racket.
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Cable and DSL offer persistent Net connections, or always-on connections, removing squealing, temperamental modems from the picture completely.
Time Warner Cable lost 140, 000 net video subscribers in Q3 2012, which was higher than its corresponding losses in 2011.
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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.
While the merger will give Comcast unmatched control over media content for a cable provider, a number of net neutrality checks imposed on it will limit this advantage.
The cable billing runs an operating margin (net before depreciation, interest and taxes, as a percent of sales) of 11%, versus 30% for fund servicing.
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And they have the advantage that their networks are designed to deliver video, where the Internet doesn't have that opportunity, because of things like net neutrality, so I think cable is fine.
Currently there's talk at Virgin of splitting up with NTL, the British cable company that's a 49% partner in Virgin Net, an Internet search portal.
The team has a lucrative local cable deal (they own a sizable stake in Comcast Sports Net Bay Area), have been out front in the popular reality television format for MLB following their 2010 title, and are pushing hard in social media.
The inquiry by the select committee, chaired by Labour MP Martin O'Neill, has been set up to examine the progress of high-speed net roll-out across Britain, via phone lines, cable and satellite.
Mr Clegg's intervention came as Vince Cable lashed out at Home Secretary Theresa May's target of cutting net migration to below 100, 000 by 2015 saying it was a Tory and not a Lib Dem policy and could have disastrous consequences for the economy.
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The idea is to have base stations everywhere beaming Net connections at 2.4 megabits per second--faster than top cable modem speeds--so that people can be connected no matter if they are in the street, in a car or at a restaurant.
Time Warner's properties include popular magazines (Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Asiaweek among them), music, film and cable-TV programming, yet the company has failed to build a large audience on the Net.
Also (though Mr Cable does not make this very nerdy point), it's worth remembering that the government measure - net debt - is what you get when you subtract the government's assets from its gross liabilities (debt).
Mr Cable denied putting out a contradictory message to Mr Clegg, who had hailed the coalition's success in cutting net migration "by a third" in his speech.
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